What are the Key Findings of the Report?<\/b><\/p>\n The <\/span>nurse to doctor ratio in India is estimated to be 1.7:1<\/strong>. This is too low when compared with<\/span> most OECD countries where there are 3-4 nurses per doctor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Moreover, the Indian High-Level Expert Group (HLEG)<\/strong> recommendation for the nurse-doctor ratio in India stood at 3:1.<\/span><\/p>\n When compared state wise, the nurse to doctor ratio ranges from Punjab<\/strong> (6.4:1) and Delhi<\/strong> (4.5:1) on the higher side and Bihar<\/strong>, Jammu and Kashmir<\/strong> and Madhya Pradesh<\/strong> having less than one nurse per doctor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Even in Kerala<\/strong>, where the number of nurses is very high, the worker nurse to doctor ratio was less than 1:1<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n Note<\/b>: According to the 15th Finance Commission<\/strong><\/a>, a nurse-to-population ratio<\/strong> in India is at 1:670 as against the WHO norm of 1:300.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The ratio of <\/span>allied health workers to doctors is estimated to be 1:1.<\/span><\/p>\n When compared state wise, there are large variations across states, ranging from more than five allied personnel per allopathic doctor in Himachal Pradesh<\/strong> to as low as one-tenth (0.1) allied health professionals per doctor in Bihar<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n Source:<\/b> This post is based on the article<\/span> \u201c<\/b>Pandemic study reveals lack of trained health personnel<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> TOI <\/b>on 21st Sep<\/b> 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The World Health Organisation (WHO) and Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) have released a report titled \u2018Health Workforce in India-Why, Where and How to Invest\u2019. What are the Key Findings of the Report? Nurse to Doctor Ratio: The nurse to doctor ratio in India is estimated to be 1.7:1. This… Continue reading Pandemic study reveals lack of trained health personnel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1305,7965,9],"tags":[3005,9317,9878,8698],"class_list":["post-135798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-covid-19-2","tag-health-infrastructure","tag-health-personnel","tag-issues-related-with-health","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704742969},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Nurse](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Nurse-to-Doctor-Ratio.png?resize=536%2C424&ssl=1\")
Nurse to Doctor Ratio:<\/b><\/h5>\n
Allied Health Workers to Doctor Ratio<\/b><\/h5>\n