How many doctors are there per 10000 Indians?

Every 10000 Indians have 10 true and false doctors:

There are more "fake doctors" in India than "real doctors"

The Indian Health Care Federation estimates that India lacks nearly 2 million doctors and 4 million nurses. In economically backward rural areas, the shortage of medical resources is particularly serious. Every day, more than 60% of rural people seek medical treatment, and the "barefoot doctor" who practices medicine without a license is Mondal.

In Pu 'er Village, Batas, the villagers said that they would rather spend some money to see Mondal than go to the so-called free community medical service center, because the latter is several kilometers away from the village and there are few medical staff. It is only open for a few hours a week, which cannot meet the daily needs of villagers. Mondal said that he has treated many common diseases for the villagers, such as hypertension, diarrhea and anemia.

Sangha mitra Gao Xi, an official of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of West Bengal, admits that it is difficult to retain doctors in remote rural areas because of poor conditions, and undocumented "quacks" objectively fill the gap in the "overloaded medical system".

Relevant data show that in West Bengal with a population of more than 90 million, there are more than100000 people practicing medicine without a license; If you count the whole country, it is estimated that there are millions of people. In other words, there are more "fake doctors" in India than "real doctors". Some of them, like Mondal, work as doctors' assistants, some inherit the prescription of Ayurveda, a traditional Indian herb, and some technicians in chemical laboratories turn to practice medicine ... In short, they are not doctors recognized by the mainstream society.

India lacks regular doctors who graduated from medical schools.