HomeContact Site map   Google    www    iipm think tank
   
   
  Home > Scrutiny > National Issues > ‘Bed’-deviled   
   
     
   Case Studies  
       
  Marketing    
  Human Resource    
  Information Technology    
  Finance    
  Strategy    
       
 
     
   Industries  
       
  Steel    
  Glass    
  Banking    
  Prophylactic    
  Auto    
  Hospitality    
  Energy    
       
 
     
   Other links  
       
  IIPM    
  Planman Consulting    
  Planman Marcom    
  Planman Technologies    
  Daily Indian Media    
  Planman Financial    
  4P's Business and Marketing    
  Business and Economy    
  The Daily Indian    
  The Sunday Indian    
  Arindam Chaudhuri    
  GIDF    
  Kkoooljobs    
       
 
  
         
National Issues
  
HEALTH : HOSPITAL  BEDS
'Bed'-deviled
Carry bribes if you're sick..

   HHonourable profession?ave you ever visited one of the premier hospitals – say the All India Institute of medical science (AIIMS) – in New Delhi? On any normal non-crisis day, hundreds of serious patients strive to occupy a hospital bed. Pathetically then, the Indian healthcare system has proved to be thoroughly inept in providing for the basic needs of healthcare in the country. According to the last available WHO report, India has fewer than one bed and one doctor per 1,000 population. India has 6,00,000 beds, compared to China’s 3.2 million hospital beds across the country. A state-wise analysis show that 33% of Maharashtra’s hospital beds are concentrated in its capital Mumbai alone. More than 50% (of the 60,000 that are registered) of Maharashtra’s doctors have practice in Mumbai.

Even the private participation for additional beds is not sufficient (even after its 13% annual growth). The Maninder Acharya Committee found that out of the 26 hospitals that it visited, 23 had not admitted a single poor patient. WHO suggests that India has to add 80,000 beds every year to meet its deficiencies. Would India be able to match up to this ask? That’s just a ‘bed’time story...


  
 
 
       
Home | Scrutiny | Publications | About us | Contact us
Copyright @2010 iipm think tank. All rights reserved.