Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh has topped among States for having AYUSH facilities at all 328 primary health centers in urban areas. In tribal pockets, there are AYUSH doctors available at 228 primary and community health centers, placing the State third at national level. Odisha ranks first with 296 AYUSH doctors and Chhattisgarh is second with 279.
Madhya Pradesh has been among the first six states in India to have significantly increased the number of sub-health centers in rural areas since 2005. It also ranks seventh among the ten States with the highest number of primary health centers according to the report “Health Dynamics of India – Infrastructure and Human Resources” released recently by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. The state is also among the top six for the number of community health centers, with a total of 332 out of 5,491 nationwide.
