Delhi has 2.71 hospital beds per 1,000, WHO recommends 5

Delhi's hospital bed to population ratio is little more than half of the WHO's recommended standard of 5 beds per 1,000 population, even though allocation to health sector under annual plans has significantly increased in the last decade.
As per the Delhi's economic survey of 2014-15, although the number of hospital beds have increased to 48,096 in 2014 from 32,941 in 2004, bed to population ratio stands at 2.71 (beds per 1,000 persons) a mere improvement from 2.25 in 2004.
Last year the ratio stood at 2.50.
"The investment in health sector under annual plans has significantly increased from Rs 469.83 crore in 2004-05 to Rs 1,990 crore in 2014-15 and thus recorded an annual compound growth rate (AGCR) of 15.53 per cent," said the report tabled in the Assembly today.

Around 15 Delhi government hospitals, including 200 bed hospital at Burari, 225 bed hospital at Chattarpur, 200 bed hospital at Madipur etc are under construction or under planning stage.
"The number of medical institutions in Delhi has increased at a low rate in terms of number of institutions and special clinics. There are number of reasons behind slow pace of extension of new health outlets such as nonavailability of land, shortage of manpower and multiplicity of agencies, etc.
"Moreover, all the hospitals especially major hospitals in Delhi are overcrowded because of heavy patient load," stated the report.