Doctors Shortage: Not even one doctor per thousand in UP
Lucknow: There is less than one doctor for every thousand persons in Uttar Pradesh which is below the standards prescribed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the state Assembly was informed.
The state’s health minister Siddharth Nath Singh said that for every thousand persons in the state there are just 0.63 government and private medical practitioners.
At present there is not even a single doctor per 1,000 persons in Uttar Pradesh, which is the standard recommended by the WHO, Singh said.
Apart from this, for every 1,000 persons there are only 1.5 hospital beds in the state, he said while intervening in a discussion on the annual state budget 2017-18.
He said that as an immediate measure to tide over the shortage of doctors, the government had raised their retirement age from 60 to 62.
He said that he had also obtained cabinet approval for a proposal to conduct walk-in interviews for quick appointment of 1,000 doctors.
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