Mumbai: India has a severe lack of surgical resources. Among first level referral hospitals across the country, 39% of primary health centres did not have an operating room, 19% of district hospitals did not have a surgeon, 83% did not have an anaesthetist and 91% did not have a blood storage facility, according to a paper on the state of healthcare in South Asia released by The BMJ on Wednesday (12 April).
\r\nA study from 2015 showed that in India people living in remote areas were often late in accessing care for routine emergencies and after road traffic accidents, which led to a large number of preventable deaths. |
