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India has one government doctor for every 11â[euro][per thousand]528 people and one nurse for every 483 people, figures from a report on the country's health sector have shown.
The National Health Profile 2015 report found that 938â[euro][per thousand]861 doctors were registered in India in 2014. 1 It also found that government hospitals had one bed for every 1833 people, although this ratio was far worse in some states-Bihar, for example, had just one bed for every 8800 people.
Dhiman Sen, senior consultant and head of the Department of Internal Medicine at Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals in Kolkata, described the ratio of...