“A city with 7 times the national hospital beds, where more than half its women are anemic. The paradox is the data.”
Kolkata Healthcare & Health Indicators
61 hospital beds per 10K (7x national average), yet 58% women anemic — NFHS-5 2019-21
Kolkata has 61 hospital beds per 10,000 people against a national average of 9 — one of the densest concentrations of medical infrastructure in India, built on 48 government hospitals, 366 private establishments and 7 medical colleges.
And yet 58.2% of the city's women are anaemic, and 72.3% of its children. Kolkata delivers 97.5% of its babies in institutions and fully vaccinates 80.2% of infants, but nutrition outcomes sit far below what the infrastructure would predict. Access to hospitals turns out not to be the same thing as health.
About this data
What this page shows
A scorecard radar of headline indicators, child nutrition measured against national figures, hospital bed availability, a breakdown of facility types, and cards for all 141 NFHS-5 indicators grouped into thirteen themes — maternal health, child immunisation, fertility, family planning, adult nutrition, cancer screening, substance use and women's empowerment among them. Caesarean deliveries account for 44.7% of births; 29.6% of children are stunted and 32.9% underweight.
Where the data comes from
Indicator data is the National Family Health Survey round 5 (NFHS-5), fielded 2019–21, at Kolkata district level. Hospital infrastructure combines aggregate counts published by the West Bengal Department of Health & Family Welfare with bed counts verified directly against individual hospital websites.
Limitations worth knowing
The two halves of this page have different vintages, and it matters. NFHS-5 reflects 2019–21. The departmental aggregate counts date to 2010 and are the most recent official consolidated figures published — the beds-per-10,000 ratio in particular rests on that older denominator and should be read as indicative. NFHS-5 is a household survey with sampling error, not a census, so small differences between indicators are not necessarily real. Kolkata's hospitals also serve patients from across West Bengal and neighbouring states, which inflates per-capita infrastructure relative to the population actually resident in the city.
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