Lok Sabha Question No. 1778 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-12-16
Subject: Reservation of Hospital`s Beds
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Giridhari Yadav

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1778 TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 16 TH DECEMBER, 2022

## RESERVATION OF HOSPITAL'S BEDS

## 1778.   SHRI GIRIDHARI YADAV:

## Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether as per the guidelines of MCI (currently NMC), it is mandatory to reserve 10 per cent of total bed capacity for ICU in all the hospitals in the country;
- (b)  if  so,  the  details  thereof  along  with  the  total  number  of  beds  available  in  government hospitals across the country including the ICU beds; and
- (c)  the  time  by  which  the  Government  proposes  to  make  ICU  beds  available  as  per  the norms?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## (DR BHARATI PRAVIN PAWAR)

(a) to (c): As per Minimum Requirements for Annual MBBS Admissions Regulations, 2020, the  requirement  for  beds  in  Intensive  Care  Unit  (ICU),  including  Intensive  Coronary  Care Unit (ICCU), Surgical ICU, Paediatric ICU and Neonatal ICU and Obstetric HUD/ ICU are as under:-

|   Annual MBBS student intake |   ICU beds required |
|------------------------------|---------------------|
|                          100 |                  30 |
|                          150 |                  60 |
|                          200 |                  90 |
|                          250 |                 120 |

It is primarily responsibility of State governments/Union Territories to make available sufficient  number of beds as per need. As per National Health Profile 2021, the State/ UT wise  details  of  total  number  of  beds  available  in  government  hospitals  has  been  placed  at Annexure.

State/UT  wise  number  of  Government  Hospital  and  Beds  in  the  country  (as  per National Health Profile 2021)

|   SI.No. | State/UT          |   Number of Government Hospitals |   Number of Beds |
|----------|-------------------|----------------------------------|------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh    |                             6234 |            86721 |
|        2 | Arunachal Pradesh |                              218 |             2404 |
|        3 | Assam             |                             1239 |            28039 |
|        4 | Bihar             |                             2132 |            29339 |
|        5 | Chhattisgarh      |                              247 |             9610 |
|        6 | Goa               |                               43 |             3086 |
|        7 | Gujarat           |                             2245 |            29402 |
|        8 | Haryana           |                              678 |            12590 |
|        9 | Himachal Pradesh  |                              822 |            14782 |
|       10 | Jammu &Kashmir    |                             1275 |             4418 |
|       11 | Jharkhand         |                             4463 |            14891 |
|       12 | Karnataka         |                             2842 |            70474 |
|       13 | Kerala            |                             1284 |            38097 |
|       14 | Madhya Pradesh    |                              465 |            31106 |
|       15 | Maharashtra       |                              514 |            33028 |
|       16 | Manipur           |                              119 |             1768 |
|       17 | Meghalaya         |                              154 |             4467 |
|       18 | Mizoram           |                               99 |             2022 |
|       19 | Nagaland          |                              177 |             2461 |
|       20 | Odisha            |                             1806 |            18519 |
|       21 | Punjab            |                              816 |            21241 |
|       22 | Rajasthan         |                             2849 |            46778 |
|       23 | Sikkim            |                               33 |             2260 |
|       24 | Tamil Nadu        |                             2507 |            99435 |

|   25. | Telangana                |   677 |   5094 |
|-------|--------------------------|-------|--------|
|    26 | Tripura                  |   155 |   4343 |
|    27 | Uttar Pradesh            |  4683 |  66700 |
|    28 | Uttarakhand              |   618 |   8106 |
|    29 | West Bengal              |  1594 |  96012 |
|    30 | Andaman &Nicobar Islands |    30 |   1202 |
|    31 | Chandigarh               |    49 |   3758 |
|    32 | D&N Haveli               |    11 |    589 |
|    33 | Daman &Diu               |    04 |    320 |
|    34 | Delhi                    |   107 |  27154 |
|    35 | Lakshadweep              |    12 |    250 |
|    36 | Puducherry               |    44 |   4768 |

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