Only so many beds per thousand population in Delhi, 4 more new hospitals will be ready this year

New Delhi. Delhi’s Arvind Kejriwal government on Wednesday presented a budget of Rs 78,800 crore for the financial year 2023-24 in the assembly. In this budget, special attention has been given to many important issues including education, health, environment and transport. Especially in the field of health, 11 new hospitals are being built in Delhi in the next few years, out of which 4 hospitals will be ready this year itself. Let us tell you that in the last 9 years in the Economic Survey report, the per capita expenditure on health in Delhi has increased three times. In the year 2012-13, where the per capita expenditure on health was Rs 1573, in the year 2021-22 it has increased to Rs 5022. Has gone.

Let us tell you that the Delhi government has provided the highest budget for health after education. Delhi has 2.89 beds per thousand population after the Corona period. If we talk about the year 2013-14, then it was 2.47 at that time. At present there are 1163 medical institutes and hospitals in Delhi. At present, the total number of beds in Delhi is 58,960.

These are the standards of WHO
According to WHO’s standard, the ratio of population and beds should be 5 beds per thousand, which is a little more than half at present. Still Delhi is far away from WHO’s standard. According to the economic report, at present 11 new hospitals are being built in Delhi. After its completion, 10,000 more beds will be added in Delhi. Along with this, the Delhi government is also working on increasing the number of beds in the existing 15 hospitals. With this, 6 thousand beds will increase in Delhi.

The condition of beds in hospitals is improving in Delhi
After the completion of these hospitals in Delhi, there is a plan to increase the number of beds from 14,000 to 30,000. A total of Rs 9,742 crore has been proposed to be allocated for health in the national capital’s budget for the year 2023-24. This is slightly less than 9,769 crores last year.

Finance Minister Kailash Gehlot presenting the budget for the year 2023-24 in the Delhi Assembly. (ANI)

what happened in the health sector last year
Let us tell you that Delhi’s Finance Minister Kailash Gehlot had presented the Outcome Budget in the Assembly on Monday, in which he gave information about the performance of education, health and transport departments. In this survey report, in the health sector of Delhi government, at present only 54 percent work on 124 projects is on track. Nothing has been done on 46 percent work yet, which is a matter of concern.

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This budget was presented after the confrontation between the Center and the Kejriwal government for the last few days. In this budget, it was decided to remove three mountains of garbage in Delhi, to connect all colonies with sewage and to increase the capacity of sewage treatment plants to clean the Yamuna river.

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