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2.7 HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE
2.7.1 CLASSES OF HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE
The Ministry of Health is the nodal agency for maintaining health infrastructure in the country. The
analysis of health infrastructure in this report is exclusive health institutions which are managed and
maintained by Ministry of Health. This covers large spectrum of health services including hospitals,
primary health centres (PHC)/ health centres (HC), health posts (HP), and sub-health posts (SHP).
2.7.2 NUMBER OF HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE
Figure 2.6 shows the map stating number of Health institution in each district. Septari, Siraha, Dhanusa
and Sarlahi have the highest number of health institution more than 100 in numbers. The lowest is
Manang having 14 Health institutions.
2.7.3 DENSITY MAPS WITH NUMBER OF HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE
The population per health institution (PHI) (ICIMOD and CBS, 2003b) is defined as the ratio of the
number of persons to the number of health institutions. It is one of the indicators measuring the
distribution pattern of health services in relation to the size of population in the country. The data on
health institutions hospitals, primary health centres (PHC), health centres (HC), health posts (HP), and
sub-health posts were obtained from the Department of Health Services for the fiscal year 2000/2001
(from second half July 2000 to first half July, 2001). Since the census enumeration was also conducted
in mid June of 2001, these two different data sets can be used together to compute the indicator.
The (estimated) population per (government) health institution over the country as a whole was 5,663;
district-wise it varied from 685 (Manang) to 17,177 (Kanchanpur). The value of the ratio was below the
national average in 50 districts and above in 25 districts. The population pressure on health infrastructure
is higher in Terai and hill region than mountain region. Figure 2.7 shows the number of health institute
and population per institution.
Figure 2.6. Map showing number of health institutions in districts (Source:(ICIMOD and CBS, 2003b))
Figure 2.7. Map showing Number of health institutions and population per institution (Source:(ICIMOD and CBS, 2003b))
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