NITI Aayog Ki Report: Doctor not staff, NITI Aayog exposed Bihar’s poll. 1 News Track English

NITI Aayog Ki Report: A NITI Aayog report states that Bihar’s district hospitals have only six beds per one lakh population, which is the lowest in the country. NITI Aayog has released a report on the condition of district hospitals in the country, in which the plight of the health system of Bihar has been exposed.

The report said that Bihar lags behind on many parameters in health facilities. Puducherry with 222 beds per one lakh population and Bihar is at the bottom with six beds in the list released regarding the availability of beds in government district hospitals. In Bihar’s neighboring state Jharkhand, this number is nine. These figures are also of special importance because this study was done just before the outbreak of the corona epidemic. This shows that the public health infrastructure, especially in district hospitals, was not adequate at the time when the country was battling this pandemic. Between the two waves of Corona, people had to deal with the problem of beds especially in hospitals.

24 beds per one lakh in the country

The average number of beds in the country for a population of one lakh is 24. Whereas according to the standard of Indian Public Health Standard, there must be at least 22 beds in district hospitals per one lakh population. According to this standard, only three doctors are available in 36 government district hospitals of Bihar. As per the norms, only six hospitals have staff nurses. Whereas only 19 hospitals have paramedical staff. In the rest of the hospitals of the state, there are neither doctors, nor staff nurses nor paramedical staff as per the standard.

what is the standard

As per the norms, a hospital of 100 beds must have 29 doctors, 45 staff nurses and 31 paramedical staff. But out of the total 742 districts of the country, all 14 types of specialist doctors are available in government hospitals in only 101 districts. Similarly, only 217 district hospitals have 22 beds per one lakh population.

If we assess the situation on the main performance indicators fixed by NITI Aayog, Saharsa district hospital has the highest number of active beds per one lakh population. In the country, where there is one doctor for a population of about 1,500, Bihar has one doctor for a population of more than 28 thousand, while according to WHO standards, there should be one doctor per 1,000 population.

Another aspect of this is that the government is not getting doctors at all. In the appointment being made by the Bihar Technical Service Commission, candidates were not found in many departments. There were 1,243 vacancies in microbiology, radiology, pathology and some other departments including Psychiatric and Anesthesia, but the government could get only 159 specialist doctors.

Nitish angry

Nitish Kumar is angry with the report of Niti Yoga. He says that NITI Aayog is not honest about Bihar. He argues that Bihar cannot be compared with developed and less populated states. Because Bihar is at number three after Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra in terms of population. There is nowhere in the country as much population as there is per square meter.

By the way, in the report released by the international organization Oxfam on health inequality in the states, it has been said that the Bihar government has spent two percent of GDP in recent years on developing the infrastructure of health facilities. It is the highest in the country after Assam at 2.6 per cent.