Up Rural Hospitals Condition

HR Singh sees 50 patients a day. The health centre or rural hospital that he runs in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Chitrakoot district serves 20 villages within 10 km as their only medical facility. Mr Singh is no doctor, he is a pharmacist, but in the absence of a doctor he hands out basic medicines for common illnesses like fever and cold.

HR Singh sees 50 patients a day. The health centre or rural hospital that he runs in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Chitrakoot district serves 20 villages within 10 km as their only medical facility. Mr Singh is no doctor, he is a pharmacist, but in the absence of a doctor he hands out basic medicines for common illnesses like fever and cold.