48 people fell ill in rural areas while 50 in urban per one thousand people in the national capital during January-June 2014, according to a report on 'Social Consumption on Health in Delhi'.
The report brought out by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics of Delhi Government based on result of National Sample Survey 71st Round on Health and Morbidity states that proportion of ailing persons (PAP) was found to be highest among age groups 60 plus followed by persons falling in the age group 45-59 years.
The report, released by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, stated that 48 people were reported to be ailing in rural areas and 50 in urban as compared to 89 in rural and 118 in urban at the national level.
The comparative figure in urban areas of Punjab was 170, Haryana 75, Himachal Pradesh 51, Jammu and Kashmir 41, Rajasthan 83, Uttar Pradesh 91 and Gujarat 103.
The report also stated that out of total estimated birth cases, 5.02 per cent were reported in rural and 94.98 per cent cases in urban.
Maximum number of child birth cases - 33.95 per cent - were reported for mothers in the age group of 20-24 years, closely followed by mothers in the age group of 25-29 years.
The average duration of stay of mothers at hospital per child birth was about 3 days.
In Delhi, out of total estimated child birth cases, 62.48 per cent were reported in public hospitals. The share of total hospitalisation cases (excluding child birth) in urban Delhi, reported in public hospitals, accounted for 51.4 per cent against 32 per cent at the national level.
The Deputy Chief Minister said the old age dependency ratio in Delhi is 6.97 which indicates that every 100 persons in the age group of 15 to 59 years were supporting, physically or otherwise, about seven aged persons in the year 2014.
