Shocking: One third allopathic practitioners in India quacks, implies WHO report
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In a jaw dropping disclosure made regarding the healthcare workforce of the country, a recently published report by the World Health organisation has stated that Almost one-third (31 per cent) of those who claimed to be allopathic doctors in 2001 were educated only up to the secondary school level and 57 per cent did not have any medical qualification.
The report which is based on the census data of 2001 has revealed even poorer figures for the rural areas where just 18.8 per cent of allopathic doctors had a medical qualification.
Some of the salient disclosures made by the study include
The report which is based on the census data of 2001 has revealed even poorer figures for the rural areas where just 18.8 per cent of allopathic doctors had a medical qualification.
Some of the salient disclosures made by the study include
- At the national level, the density of all doctors (allopathic, ayurvedic, homeopathic and unani) was 79.7 doctors per lakh population, and of nurses and midwives 61.3 per lakh population. The comparable figures for China in 2005 were 130 for doctors, and 96 for nurses, per lakh population. In both countries, the densities were higher in urban than in rural areas, but in India the urban density of doctors was 4 times higher than in rural areas, whereas in China it was only twice as high as in rural areas. In short, India had significantly fewer doctors per person compared to China, and their distribution between urban and rural areas was much more unequal.
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