Over 60 per cent people from rural areas go out of state for better medical treatment: Study

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migrate" out of their state for availing treatment for major diseases, according to a report. The 'State of Healthcare in Rural India-2023' study had 6,478 respondents, 75 per cent men and 25 per cent women, across six regions — north, south, northeast, east, central and west. The report also stated that at an all-India aggregate, a little over 10 per cent of rural India went to a public primary healthcare facility for serious ailments. The majority used government-run secondary-level facilities (around 60 per cent), about 22 per cent went to a private facility, mostly hospitals, and just over five per cent consulted a private medical practitioner, the study by Transform Rural India and Sambodhi Research Pvt Ltd found. People in northeastern states have the highest preference for «migration» for health facilities and 84 per cent respondents in this region said they would go out of their states in search of better medical treatment, it stated. The percentage for the eastern region was 66 and for the central region 61 with respondents expressing similar intentions, the report stated.

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On the contrary, more than two-third of the respondents from the south region felt no need to «migrate out» for treatment, it stated. The all-India level findings of the report showed that «almost 63 per cent of people from rural areas chose to migrate out of their state for availing treatment for major diseases». The report stated that «at the same time, a large majority of participants, accounting for more than 90 per cent, had expressed a preference for moving to a different district within their state rather than to a different state when faced