MEDICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES

HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES

A high percentage of population in the district, still lacks adequate medical facilities. Naturally expansion of medical facilities and promotion of public health measures have essentially become the important assignments of the Government. The following table shows the provision of medical facilities in the district during 1961 to 1963.

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Medical facilities in Akola District

The District Hospital was established at Akola in 1927. The hospital is controlled by the Government. Besides this hospital, the Government controls the District Hospital for Women at Akola and the Laxmibai Deshmukh Hospital at Murtizapur. The municipal hospitals at Washim, Karanja, Akot, Murtizapur, Telhara and Balapur, the municipal city dispensary at Akola and the municipal dispensary at Patur are also controlled by the Civil Surgeon.

The following statement gives the statistics regarding outdoor and in-door patients treated at the hospitals and dispensaries under the control of the Government.

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