Answer» - Medical facilities include number of hospitals, doctors, nurses, compounders, etc. available to provide health care to the citizens of country.
- As per an estimate there is 1 doctor per 6000 people in developing countries like India.
- Indian poor do not have access to sufficient medical facilities. Therefore life expectancy rate is low and infant mortality is high.
- In developing countries, every year 1.7 crore people die from diarrhoea, Malaria and T.B.
- Out of the 2.3 crore people suffering from AIDS world over, 90% belong to developing countries.
- All these facts and figures reveal that improper medical facilities are taking a major toll on people belonging to developing countries like India.
- The human resource which is the most important asset of a country is getting destroyed due to several diseases and hence the economies are draining.
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