Chapter 2
Health Sector in India
CHAPTER OUTLINE
CHAPTER OBJECTIVE
The main objective of this chapter is to provide an overview of the health sector in India and to bring out the critical role of hospitals in the delivery of health services. India needs to add 1 million physicians, 2 million nurses and 3 million hospital beds to achieve the world average of 1.7 physicians, 3.3 nurses and 3.6 beds per 1,000 people.
2.1 AN INTRODUCTION
Our National Population Policy 20001 and the National Health Policy 20022 are the two important policy documents of the Indian health ...
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