The total outlay on health during 2003-04 is estimated at Rs 32.1 billion, showing 13.8 percent increase over the last year, Economic Survey 2003-04 launched here on Friday said.
According to the survey, the coverage of health facilities has improved over the years and the existing network of medical services consists of 906 hospitals, 4,554 dispensaries, 5,290 Basic Health Units (BHUs), 552 Rural Health Centres (RHCs) and the availability of 98,684 hospital beds.
There are 108,062 doctors, 5,530 dentists and 46,331 nurses in the country. During the calendar year 2003, the population medical facilities ratio in terms of doctors worked out to be 1,404 persons per doctor, 27,414 persons per dentist, 3,296 persons per nurse and the availability of one hospital bed for 1,536 persons.
The new health facilities added to the overall health services system during 2003-04 includes construction of 30 new facilities (25 BHUs and 5 RHUs), upgradation of 35 existing facilities (25 BHUs and 10 RHUs), addition of 1,600 hospital beds and training of 3,500 doctors, 200 dentists, 2,000 nurses and 4,500 paramedics, besides recruitment of 17,000 LHVs.
To control the common diseases and to alleviate their pain and sufferings, various health programmes like tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS control programmes were also carried out, the Economic Survey said.
The caloric intake per person has been estimated as 2,529 per day in 2003-04, showing an increase of 2.6 percent over the previous year and per capita protein availability has increased from 64.3 grams of the last year to 65.8 grams in 2003-04.
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