MEDICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES

HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES AND OTHER FACILITIES.

The medical organisation in the district is essentially a hospital organisation and renders curative medical relief to the general population with ancillary specialist sections. In 1960-61 there were 15 hospitals of which four were located in Chanda taluka. There were fifty dispensaries in the district comprising 31 ayurvedic dispensaries, 17 allopathic dispensaries and two unani dispensaries.

The main hospital at Chandrapur known as the General Hospital, Chandrapur is the biggest hospital in the district. A part of the main hospital is reserved for female patients. It is included in the total of seven maternity homes in the district which have 60 beds and which served 478 indoor patients and 3,541 outdoor patients during the year 1963-64. All the hospitals in the district together provided employment to 86 doctors and 105 nurses and had 208 beds in 1963-64 as against 190 in 1961-62. During the year 1963-64 nearly 5,835 indoor patients and 5,05,529 outdoor patients were treated in these hospitals.

Each bed served on an average 5,944 souls on the basis of total population. Since nearly 5,835 indoor and 5,05,529 outdoor patients were treated in 1963-64, the doctor-patients ratio is worked out to 68 indoor and 5,878 outdoor patients per doctor.

In addition the Matru Seva Sangha, Nagpur has its three branches of maternity homes in the district at Warora, Brahmapuri and Armori. The Mahila Mandal at Chandrapur runs a maternity home. The work connected with medical and public health is now entrusted to the Zilla Parishad. However, some schemes under State sector, such as, Leprosy control units, Malaria, Filaria, mobile-cum-stationary unit at Chandrapur and mobile medical unit at Aheri have been left in the State sector under the control of Medical and Public Health Department of the State Government [Now Public Health Department.]. At present the Chandrapur Zilla Parishad has 18 Panchayat Samitis under its jurisdiction and each of the Panchayat Samitis manages a primary health centre.

The following table shows the medical facilities in the district.

TABLE No. 3.

MEDICAL FACILITIES IN CHANDRAPUR DISTRICT

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TABLE No. 3-contd.

TABLE No. 3-contd.

Note: Data for Rajura Taluka are not available.     Source : Civil Surgeon, Chanda.

The total number of persons working as physicians, surgeons,  dentists, nurses, pharmacists and other medical and health  technicians in the district was 1,268 as per the 1961 Census.  The number of medical personnel per one lakh population in  the district was 33 as against the average of 55 for the State.

The following statement gives the rural/urban and male/female break-up of physicians, surgeons and dentists and  nurses, pharmacists and other medical and health technicians in the district.

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