Annexures

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Health Workers By Education Level And By Medical Qualification
Health workers With Secondary With Technical With Graduate With Post- Total With a Medical
Category Schooling or or Non-Technical Degree Graduate Degree Qualification
Less Diploma

Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number %

Allopathic 198 719 31.4 20 264 3.2 298 521 47.2 114 930 18.2 632 434 100.0 269 956 42.7
doctors

Ayurvedic 27 792 25.2 3 183 2.9 74 603 67.6 4 705 4.3 110 283 100.0 66 266 60.1
doctors

Homeo. 21 987 33.1 4 319 6.5 31 561 47.5 8 549 12.9 10 342 100.0 27 759 41.8
Doctors

Unani doctors 4 045 39.1 190 1.8 5 733 55.4 374 3.6 66 416 100.0 4 738 45.8

Dental pract. 9 239 37.9 531 2.2 12 490 51.2 2 143 8.8 24 403 100.0 10 325 42.3

Nurses & 422 745 67.1 58 548 9.3 139 819 22.2 9 294 1.5 630 406 100.0 62 592 9.9
midwives

Pharmacists 157 751 68.2 17 252 7.5 49 069 21.2 7 366 3.2 231 438 100.0 19 124 8.3

Ancill, health 213 665 60.8 14 658 4.2 102 513 29.2 20 342 5.8 351 178 100.0 20 226 58

Trad’I & faith 7 933 62.8 362 2.9 3 937 31.1 408 3.2 12 640 100.0 910 7.2
heal.

All health 1 063 51.4 119 307 5.8 718 246 34.7 168 111 8.1 2069 100.0 481 896 45.0
workers 876 540

All doctors & 675 288 46.6 86 504 6.0 550 237 38.0 137 852 9.5 1449 100.0 431 311 23.3
nurses 881

All doctors 252 543 30.8 27 956 3.4 410 418 50.1 128 558 15.7 819 475 100.0 368 719 29.7

AYUSH doctors 53 824 28.8 7 692 4.1 111 897 59.8 13 628 7.3 187 041 100.0 98 763 52.8

Notes: % here refers to the percentage of the health worker category with a given education level or medical qualification.
(Source: World Health Organisation Geneva: The Health Workforce in India Sudhir Anand and Victoria Fan 2016)
(Permission to reproduce the charts was obtained from WHO.)

Unqualified Medical Practitioners In India 87