International Nurses Day 2014- Nurses: A Force for Change – A vital resource for health.

International Nurses Day(IND) is celebrated around the world every May 12, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth.

The IND theme for 2014 is: Nurses: A Force for Change – A vital resource for health.

India is facing serious problems in health care sector due to lowest number of hospital beds, doctors, nurses, pharmacists and healthcare workers with the distribution of population.

Hospital Beds, Nurses, Doctors availability in India vs World

The World Health Statistics say that, India ranks one of the lowest in comparison with the ratio of hospital beds to population.

As per the recent statistics from World Health Organisation(WHO)

, India is just having 12 hospital beds, 6 Doctors and 13 Nurses per 10,000 people, this is far below the world average 30 hospital beds, 15 Doctors and 28 Nurses per 10,000 people. This indicates India is far behind the US, UK, China and Brazil.


Hospital beds, doctors and nurses ratio is shown in the above is comprising of all healthcare centers, district hospitals, general hospitals, nursing homes, mid-tier and top-tier private hospitals.