Lack of access to health care providers in Indian city's are massive, India is facing a debilitating shortage of health specialists, including in basic disciplines such as surgery, gynaecology and paediatrics, statistics compiled by the National Health Mission show. Rural community health centres face over 82 per cent shortage in surgeons, physicians and peadiatricians — 82.5%, 82.6% and 82.2% respectively — and have only 23.4 per cent of the obstetricians and gynaecologists they require.
The story in urban centres is no better, with around 2 lakh surgeons, less than 50,000 paediatricians, 70,000 obstetrics/gynaecology doctors and around 1 lakh physicians catering to the 121 crore population of the country. “Overall there is a shortfall of 81 per cent in specialists at the CHCs,” a report by the NHM says. The total number of specialist doctors in the centres has actually declined from 5,805 in 2013 to 4,091 in 2014, with the highest decreases in Uttar Pradesh (1,256) and West Bengal (947). More than half of patients with critical health issues go without treatment. We’re not getting the care that we need. We built DOI LIVE to help address this problem.
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