Bhubaneswar: The Kalahandi episode has brought to the fore the shocking facts of poor ambulance density in State as Odisha is placed at 4th from the bottom among the high-focus States in the country in 2015-16, other than the North Eastern States. The high-focus States have the poorest health infra and high disease/patient load in the country. \r\nOdisha with around 3 ambulances per lakh population is at the 6th place in the ten high-focus States in the country and is trailing behind the States like Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. Odisha, however, ranks higher than Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar, reveals the latest data available till March end 2016. |
