A view of the construction site of a 200-bed advanced-care hospital, a unit of the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital in Bhagalpur district in the eastern state of Bihar, India on November 12 2021. Picture: REUTERS/Krishna N. DasAt the height of the first Covid-19 wave in India last year, the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital in the eastern district of Bhagalpur exemplified the sorry state of healthcare in most of the countryside.
Work on a new 200-bed advanced-care hospital, which started a few years ago, accelerated this year and is likely to be finished by the first half of next year. About 4,000 of them have been commissioned in recent months, according to the federal government. The government has also pledged to build many new hospitals and upgrade existing ones in the next few years with the investment of about $9bn — part of a bigger plan to double the number of hospital beds to two per 1,000 people.
“But without the human resources — they should be adequate in numbers, well trained and well distributed across the country — infrastructure alone will not deliver. So this element needs to be focused upon as quickly as possible.”
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