As per the 12th Five Year Plan document of the Planning Commission, the current availability of health personnel in the country is 241 per lakh population which is below the minimum requirement of 250 per lakh population. The category-wise details of current availability of health personnel are as under:
Category | Density* |
| Physician | 57 |
| AYUSH | 44 |
| Dentists | 7 |
| Nurses/GNM | 61 |
| ANM | 30 |
| Pharmacist | 41 |
| Total | 241 |
* Density per lakh population.
As per the 12th Five Year Plan document of the Planning Commission, given the existing production capacity, Thecountry can expect an availability of 354 health personnel per lakh population by 2017, as per category-wise details given below
Category | Density* |
| Physician | 65 |
| AYUSH | 49 |
| Dentists | 15 |
| Nurses/GNM | 115 |
| ANM | 39 |
| Pharmacist | 70 |
| Total | 354 |
* Density per lakh population
This information was given by Minister for Health & Family Welfare Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad in written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today.
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