NEW DELHI — Mithilesh Chaudhary, 21, coughs weakly as he struggles to his feet after spending the night outside the state-run All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. 'We have been sleeping on the footpath for two nights,' said his grandfather Bhim Lal, as the two waited in a line of about 100 people outside the hospital's...
Mithilesh Chaudhary, 21, a patient, looks on as his mother Anita Devi, 30, and his grandfather Bhim Lal Chaudhary, 59, wait to get an appointment outside All India Institute of Medical Sciences, on a footpath in New Delhi, India, May 1, 2023.NEW DELHI — Mithilesh Chaudhary, 21, coughs weakly as he struggles to his feet after spending the night outside the state-run All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
His plight and that of others who queue every day starting at dawn highlights the shortage of specialist doctors and health workers in India's countryside, where more than two-thirds of its 1.43 billion people live. The WHO and doctors groups such as the Indian Medical Association do not include traditional medicine practitioners in their calculations.
At the Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, an 800-bed hospital in the largely rural Bhagalpur district in Bihar, a senior doctor said the medicine department - the first point of contact for patients — for example, had only half the number of required doctors in the past five years.
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