Lok Sabha Question No. 797 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-07-24
Subject: Government Hospitals
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: MAULANA BADRUDDIN AJMAL, JAYAKUMAR JAYAVARDHAN, BHARATI DHIRUBHAI SHIYAL, P.K.SREEMATHI TEACHER

**GOVERNMENT OF INDIA**

**MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE**

**DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE**

**LOK SABHA**

**UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.797**

**TO BE ANSWERED ON 24** **TH** **JULY, 2015**

**Government Hospitals**

**797. SHRI BADRUDDIN AJMAL:**

**DR. J. JAYAVARDHAN:**

**DR. BHARATIBEN D. SHIYAL:**

**SHRIMATI P.K. SREEMATHI TEACHER:**

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

(a) the number of government hospitals in the country, district-wise and State/UT-wise;

(b) the number of Central Government hospitals in the country, State/UT-wise;

(c) the number of doctors per one thousand population in the country, State/UT-wise;

(d) whether the Government has taken note of the lack of basic facilities like beds, ventilators, medical equipments etc. along with the shortages of the doctors and paramedical staffs in the government and Central Government hospitals in the country, if so, the details thereof; and

(e) the steps taken/being taken by the Government to salvage this situation?

**ANSWER**

**THE MINISTER OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE**

**(SHRI JAGAT PRAKASH NADDA)**

1. There are a total of 20306 Government hospitals in the country. The State/UT-wise list of Government hospitals is at Annexure.

(b)     There are various Central Government Hospitals/Medical Institutions under this Ministry including Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Safdarjung Hospital, Lady Hardinge Medical College & Associated Hospitals, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, new Delhi, Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro-Sciences, Bengaluru, Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi Regional Institute of Mental Health, Tezpur, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional

Institute of Health & Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS), Shillong and Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Imphal etc.

(c)     Health being the State subject, information as such is not maintained centrally.

(d) & (e)     the efforts of the State Governments/UTs are supplemented by this Ministry by way of providing assistance under various Programmes including National Health Mission for basic and infrastructural facilities, etc. However, in so far as the three Central Government Hospitals in Delhi viz. Safdarjung Hospital, Dr. RML hospital and Lady Hardinge Medical College & its Associated Hospitals are concerned, the basic facilities like beds, ventilators, medical equipments, etc. are being continuously upgraded. Constant efforts are made to fill up the vacant posts of doctors and paramedical staff as and when vacancies arise. Upgradation of existing infrastructure and construction of new infrastructure are on-going process and it is taken up as per the requirement and availability of resources.

**Annexure**

**State/UT wise details of number of Government Hospitals including CHCs functioning in India**

| S.No   | State/UT          | No. Rural Hospitals   | No. Urban Hospitals   | Total Hospitals   | Reference Period    |
|--------|-------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-------------------|---------------------|
|        | **INDIA**         | **16816**             | **3490**              | **20306**         |                     |
|        | Andhra Pradesh    | 222                   | 56                    | 278               | 01/01/2015          |
|        | Arunachal Pradesh | 204                   | 8                     | 212               | 01/01/2015          |
|        | Assam             | 1088                  | 49                    | 1137              | 01/01/2014          |
|        | Bihar             | 1325                  | 111                   | 1436              | 01/01/2014          |
|        | Chhattisgarh      | 416                   | 221                   | 637               | 01/01/2014          |
|        | Goa               | 16                    | 15                    | 31                | 01/01/2015          |
|        | Gujarat           | 296                   | 89                    | 385               | 01/01/2015          |
|        | Haryana           | 80                    | 79                    | 159               | 01/01/2014          |
|        | Himachal Pradesh  | 107                   | 53                    | 160               | 01/01/2015          |
|        | Jammu & Kashmir   | 2368                  | 444                   | 2812              | 01/01/2015          |
|        | Jharkhand         | 545                   | 4                     | 549               | 01/01/2012          |
|        | Karnataka         | 439                   | 215                   | 654               | 01/01/2015          |
|        | Kerala            | 1135                  | 143                   | 1278              | 01/01/2015          |
|        | Madhya Pradesh    | 334                   | 117                   | 451               | 01/01/2015          |
|        | Maharashtra       | 450                   | 135                   | 585               | 01/01/2014          |
|        | Manipur           | 23                    | 7                     | 30                | 01/01/2014          |
|        | Meghalaya         | 28                    | 12                    | 40                | 01/01/2015          |
|        | Mizoram           | 29                    | 7                     | 36                | 01/01/2014          |
|        | Nagaland          | 21                    | 32                    | 53                | 01/01/2013          |
|        | Odisha            | 1659                  | 91                    | 1750              | 01/01/2015          |
|        | Punjab            | 94                    | 146                   | 240               | 01/01/2015          |
|        | Rajasthan         | 2656                  | 489                   | 3145              | 01/01/2015          |
|        | Sikkim            | 30                    | 3                     | 33                | 01/01/2015          |
|        | Tamil Nadu        | 407                   | 381                   | 788               | 01/01/2014          |
|        | Tripura           | 101                   | 21                    | 122               | 01/01/2015          |
|        | Uttarakhand       | 666                   | 29                    | 695               | 01/01/2009          |
|        | Uttar Pradesh     | 737                   | 94                    | 831               | 01/01/2011          |
|        | West Bengal       | 1272                  | 294                   | 1566              | 01/01/2015          |
|        | A & N Island      | 31                    | 1                     | 32                | 01/01/2012          |
|        | Chandigarh        | 0                     | 4                     | 4                 | 01/01/2015          |
|        | D&N Haveli        | 1                     | 1                     | 2                 | 13/05/2015          |
|        | Daman & Diu       | 0                     | 4                     | 4                 | 01/01/2014          |
|        | Delhi             | 0                     | 109                   | 109               | 01/01/2015          |
|        | Lakshadweep       | 9                     | 0                     | 9                 | 01/01/2015          |
|        | Puducherry        | 27                    | 26                    | 53                | 01/01/2014          |

Notes: Government Hospital includes Central Government, State Government and local Govt. bodies.

Source: Directorate General of State Health Services.