Healthcare
Doctor consultations crosses 4 billion in India in FY21: Report
20 Aug 2021
Indian families spend more than 60 percent of their family healthcare expenditure on primary care. Urban India, which has access to private healthcare, including clinics, nursing homes, etc. can avail primary care treatment with much ease as compared to rural India where there are fewer doctors and healthcare facilities, a report indicates.
The report from Praxis Global Alliance, showcases the outpatient healthcare market basis doctor consultation volumes by specialty and associated pharma and diagnostic prescriptions.
On average, Indians do three doctor consultations in a year; each consultation leads to one pharma prescription, and a diagnostics test is prescribed in every 3.5 consultations where the general physicians show the highest number of consultations and associated pharma prescriptions.