As
per ‘World Health Statistics 2012’ Table No.6 published by WHO, the
availability of hospital bed per 10,000 population in India is 9. As per the
National Health Profile – 2011 compiled by Central Bureau of Health
Intelligence (CBHI), the availability of average population served per
government hospital bed is 1521. As far as AIIMS and three Central Government
Hospitals i.e. Safdarjung Hospital, Dr. RML Hospital
and LHMC & associated Hospital are concerned, the details are given below:
|
S. No.
|
Name of Hospital
|
No. of beds available
|
|
1.
|
AIIMS
|
2224
|
|
2.
|
Safdarjung
Hospital
|
1531
|
|
3.
|
LHMC and associated Hospital
|
1252
|
|
4.
|
Dr. RML Hospital
|
1065
|
With regard to three Central
Government Hospitals mentioned above, the issues of the expansion of facilities
including beds in these Hospitals are taken up in accordance with requirement
and availability funds. There is no separate fund earmarked for increasing the
number of beds. However, the funds
allocation in respect of these three hospitals and AIIMS during the last three
years and the current year are as below:
(Rs. in
crore)
Dr.
RML Hospital
|
Year
|
Revenue
|
Capital
Plan
|
|
Plan
|
Non
Plan
|
|
2010-11
|
79
|
121
|
37
|
|
2011-12
|
104
|
132
|
29
|
|
2012-13
|
132
|
144
|
48
|
|
2013-14
|
88
|
163
|
153
|
Safdarjung
Hospital
|
Year
|
Revenue
|
Capital
Plan
|
|
Plan
|
Non
Plan
|
|
2010-11(FE)*
|
107
|
182
|
52
|
|
2011-12(FE)*
|
162
|
207
|
29
|
|
2012-13(FE)*
|
213
|
210
|
44
|
|
2013-14(BE)#
|
200
|
236
|
150
|
LHMC
& SSK Hospital
|
Year
|
Revenue
|
Capital
Plan
|
|
Plan
|
Non
Plan
|
|
2010-11
|
40
|
97
|
39
|
|
2011-12
|
40
|
114
|
40
|
|
2012-13
|
67
|
131
|
25
|
|
2013-14
|
150
|
135
|
45
|
*FE-Final Estimates
#BE-Budget Estimates
AIIMS
|
Year
|
Plan
|
Non-Plan
|
|
2010-11
|
380
|
605
|
|
2011-12
|
412
|
650
|
|
2012-13
|
470
|
789
|
|
2013-14
|
550
|
790
|
Since Health is State subject, it is
responsibility of the State Government to make efforts for increasing the bed
strength in the Hospitals under their jurisdiction. However, the Central
Government provides assistance to the State Governments in their efforts to
provide better health care facilities to people through various schemes such as
NRHM. The Central Government also approved the PradhanMantriSwasthyaSurakshaYojana (PMSSY)
in March 2006, which aims at correcting the
imbalances in availability of affordable/reliable tertiary level healthcare in
the country in general and augmenting facilities for quality medical education
in the under-served States. This scheme, envisages setting up six institutions
like the All India Institute of Medical
Sciences (AIIMS), one each in the States of Bihar
(Patna), Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal), Odisha (Bhubaneshwar), Rajasthan (Jodhpur), Chhattisgarh (Raipur)
and Uttarakhand (Rishikesh);
and upgradation of 19 existing
medical institutions.
This information
was given by Minister for Health & Family Welfare Shri
Ghulam Nabi Azad, in written reply to a question in the
Lok Sabha today.
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