PUDUCHERRY: The Union Puducherry area has the highest number of functional hospital beds per one population of lakh in this country, according to the Niti Aayog report on ‘best practices in the performance of the district hospital in India’.
Puducherry has 222 functional hospital beds per one Lakh population while Bihar has the lowest, with six per one population lakh.
The national average is 24 beds per one lakh population.
Tamil Nadu has 22 beds in the district hospital for one lakh population.
Niti Aayog conducts research by assessing 10 main performance indicators (KPI) including functional beds, doctors, nurses, paramedics, diagnostic facilities and health care, C-Section operations and bed residence.
A total of 707 district hospitals in 36 states and the United States are part of the assessment conducted in 2018-19.
The report was released on Thursday.
The district hospital is categorized as a small hospital (less than 200 beds), middle hospital (201 to 300 beds) and a large hospital (more than 300 beds).
A total of 217 district hospitals have at least 22 beds per lakh population.
This study describes some of the best health practices adopted in district hospitals in various states and UTS.
The average operating number per surgeon was carried out in a year at the district hospital in Puducherry was 481, Aking only to Telangana (491) and Delhi (547).
Tamil Nadu stood fourth in the country with 439 surgery per surgeon in a year at the district hospital.
Tamil Nadu has the highest proportion (20.2%) hospitals with all support services, followed by Rajasthan (11.2%), Uttar Pradesh (10.1%), Karnataka (10.1%), and West Bengal (9 %).
Tamil Nadu is second with the treatment of OPD patients, with every doctor at the district hospital treats an average of 43 patients a day.
Tamil Nadu has a high-section delivery percentage with 55.2% in the country followed by Telangana (53.5%.
Likewise, Kilpatuk Hospital is considered to be one of the leading district hospitals in countries that have all or most diagnostic testing Identified.
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Puducherry has the most functional hospital bed per 1 l
