Hyderabad Beats All Other Metro Towns And Becomes The City With Highest Density Of Doctors!

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Hyderabad Beats All Other Metro Towns And Becomes The City With Highest Density Of Doctors!

Up until now Hyderabad was the Hub for informational technology and bio technology. Slowly it is going to cement its place the Medicine hub in the country. According to a recent survey, the World Health Organization (WHO) found that the city has the highest density of qualified doctors-per-lakh of population than any other metro.

With a ratio of 161.7 doctors for every one lakh Hyderabadis, the city beats other metros. In New Delhi, 154.1 doctors cater to one lakh people, Chennai has 127.8 doctors, Kolkata has 127.1 doctors, Mumbai has 120.8 doctors and Bengaluru has only 118.2 doctors per one lakh people.

“Our city has definitely arrived in terms of medical tourism. Foreign patients from third world countries have been arriving in droves to Hyderabad for treatment, in what has become a regular feature across many of the city's corporate hospitals" said Dr E Ravinder Reddy, chairman, Telangana state medical council.

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