Fact check: UP needs more doctors, but not 500,000 as CM Adityanath said

To meet the WHO standard, UP would need to add at least 146,726 doctors

While Uttar Pradesh (UP) chief minister Yogi Adityanath said the state needs 500,000 doctors, the immediate need would be 199,281 doctors–39.8% of what the CM claimed–to meet the World Health Organization (WHO) standard of one doctor per 1,000 population and improve some health indicators that are the worst in the country.

 

 

Five lakh more doctors required in UP as of now: CM Yogi Adityanath at King George's Medical University in Lucknow. pic.twitter.com/417CyGmw9M

— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) April 5, 2017

 

UP, with a population of 199 million or