A recent report by leading online real estate firm Housing.com, titled “State of Healthcare in India: Indian cities through the lens of healthcare” shows that Kolkata lags in terms of delivery of health care services, sanitation and solid waste management compared to other cities. Kolkata has been ranked at the 7th spot on ‘Housing.com City Health Card’, which is a part of the report by the Elara Technologies-owned company. The ‘Housing City Health Card’ was prepared by benchmarking the top-8 cities against important parameters. For the City Health Card methodology, hospitals with more than 100 beds have been considered.
Housing.com’s City Health Card list is topped by Pune, while Ahmedabad and Mumbai stand at second and fourth positions, respectively. Chennai, Kolkata and Delhi-NCR are ranked sixth, seventh and eighth in the list. Kolkata, which currently has a 15.7 million population, has 2 beds per 1,000 people, including private and government hospital beds and the additional beds currently being augmented for pandemic have not been included in this, says the report.
