Question
Examine the healthcare services available in India.

Answer

  1. India has the largest number of medical colleges and about 15,000 doctors qualify every year.
  2. Hospitals have grown from 2,717 in 1950 to 18,218 in 2000.
  3. India gets a lot of medical tourists who come to take treatment in the world-class hospitals located in our country.
  4. India is the fourth largest producer of medicines and large exporter of medicines in the world.
  5. Most doctors like to settle in urban areas and do not like to settle in rural areas.
  6. About 5 lakh people die from TB every year. Likewise, 2 million cases of malaria are reported every year in India.
  7. About 21% diseases are communicable and water-borne.
  8. Half of the Indian children are undernourished.

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