Lok Sabha Question No. 3110 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-08-06
Subject: Bed Capacity in Hospitals
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Arvind Dharmapuri

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3110 TO BE ANSWERED ON 06 TH  AUGUST, 2021 BED CAPACITY IN HOSPITALS

## 3110: SHRI ARVIND DHARMAPURI:

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

- (a)  whether  the  Government  intends  to  increase  the  Bed  capacity  in Government hospitals including AIIMS, etc. throughout the Country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether any existing law makes it obligatory on the hospitals to admit patients in cases of emergency; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (DR. BHARATI PRAVIN PAWAR)

- (a)  to  (d):  'Public  Health'  and  'Hospitals'  being  State  subjects,  it  is primarily the State Governments/Union Territories (UTs) that make efforts for increasing the bed strength of hospitals in their States/UTs. However, the Central Government provides assistance to the State Governments in order  to  provide  better  health  care  facilities  to  people  through  various schemes including under National Health Mission (NHM).

The  Central  Government  has  set  up  6  new  All  India  Institute  of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Jodhpur, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Rishikesh, Raipur  and  Patna  under  Pradhan  Mantri  Swasthya  Suraksha  Yojana (PMSSY). This has augmented the bed capacity in these areas. The current bed  strength  of  these  6  New  AIIMS  and  other  major  functional  Central Government  Hospitals/  Autonomous  Institutes  under  the  Ministry  of Health and Family Welfare is at Annexure-I .

## Annexure-I

|   S.No. | Name of Hospital/Institutes                                                                        |   Total Number of Beds |
|---------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------|
|       1 | Safdarjung Hospital, Delhi                                                                         |                   2873 |
|       2 | Dr. RML Hospital, Delhi                                                                            |                   1532 |
|       3 | LHMC and Associated Hospitals, Delhi                                                               |                   1272 |
|       4 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi                                             |                   3153 |
|       5 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Raipur                                            |                    900 |
|       6 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar                                       |                    900 |
|       7 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jodhpur                                           |                    960 |
|       8 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh                                         |                    960 |
|       9 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal                                            |                    922 |
|      10 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Patna                                             |                    960 |
|      11 | North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIMS), Shillong |                    594 |
|      12 | Regional Institute of Medical Science (RIMS), Imphal                                               |                   1200 |