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The Union Ministry of Women and Child Development has dismissed the index, which ranks India 107 out of 121 countries, as ‘erroneous’. Factchecker examines the Ministry’s arguments.
Ayush doctors were included to inflate the number. Further, the country does not have accurate data on the number of practicing healthcare professionals. A 2021 study found that the density of active health workforce in India is just a little over one-fourth of the WHO’s recommended threshold of 44.5 skilled health workers per 10,000 population.
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