India has a fragile healthcare infrastructure

  • 10/05/1998

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)

As India aims at health for all early in the enxt millennium, it has only one doctor for about every 2,500 people, showing the weak and fragile healthcare infrastructure, a new study has said. Infant mortality in India is among the highest as an average of 80 out of every 1,000 children borne die, while the figure is just nine for every 1,000 in the US and 39 in a developing country like Thailand, a study conducted by Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals said.