Only 3-5% Of Total Hospital Beds Available For Emergency Care: Report
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As per the report, most of the hospitals lacked presence of general doctors, specialists and nursing staff dedicated for emergency departments vis--vis the average footfall of patients, even though the hospitals as such, had sufficient overall numbers of required human resource.
The number of beds available at emergency departments accounted for only 3-5 per cent of total hospital beds in the country, says a report that accessed the prevailing status of 100 emergency and injury care centres in government and private hospital settings.
The report titled 'Emergency and Injury Care at Secondary and Tertiary Level Centres in India', prepared by the Department of Emergency Medicine, AIIMS was submitted to Niti Aayog.
As per the report, most of the hospitals lacked presence of general doctors, specialists and nursing staff dedicated for emergency departments vis-à-vis the average footfall of patients, even though the hospitals as such, had sufficient overall numbers of required human resource.
The report assessed the prevailing status of 100 emergency and injury care centres in government and private hospital settings in 28 states and 2 union territories of India, in addition to 34 district hospitals.
