At a time when the state is battling a massive surge in Covid-19 cases, it is faced with an alarming deficit of super specialists in government hospitals.
Going by government data itself,Gujaratis faced with a 99% shortfall in super specialist doctors like surgeons, paediatricians, obstetricians-gynaecologists and the like.
This deficit of specialist doctors is the highest among all major states of the country. If Gujarat was compared to all states, it is ranked second from bottom with onlyMizoramfaring worse than Gujarat.
According to data released in the Handbook of Statistics of India States (2020-2021) by the Reserve Bank Of India, Gujarat has a requirement of 1,392 super specialists, and its shortfall is 99% at 1,379. Among all states, only Mizoram fares worse with a 100% shortfall against the requirement of 36 super specialists.
All other states fare better than Gujarat in terms of the deficit of super specialists in government healthcare systems.
Maharashtra(64%), Madhya Pradesh (96%),Rajasthan(80%),Bihar(46%), Uttar Pradesh (71%) West Bengal (54%) and several other states have a lesser Percentage of deficit of super specialists as compared to Gujarat.