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'''Healthcare in [[Tripura]]''' features a [[universal health care]] system run by the state government. The [[Constitution of India]] charges every [[states and territories of India|state]] with "raising of the level of [[nutrition]] and the [[standard of living]] of its people and the improvement of [[public health]] as among its primary duties". [[Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (Tripura)|Ministry of Health & Family Welfare]] of the [[Government of Tripura]] is responsible for healthcare administration in the state.

The health care infrastructure is divided into three tiers — the primary health care network, a secondary care system comprising district and sub-divisional hospitals and tertiary hospitals providing specialty and super specialty care.

==Healthcare indices==
Following table illustrates some health care indicators of the state, compared to the national indicator, as of 2010.<ref name="eco rev p 251">{{cite web|url=http://www.destripura.nic.in/review2010_11.pdf|title=Economic review of Tripura 2010–11|format=PDF|publisher=Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Planning (Statistics) Department, Government of Tripura|access-date=20 April 2012|page=251|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124053410/http://www.destripura.nic.in/review2010_11.pdf|archive-date=24 January 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> These data are based on [[Sample Registration System]] of Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Indicator <ref name="eco rev p 251"/> !! Tripura !! India
|-
|[[Birth rate]] || 14.9 || 22.1
|-
|[[Death rate]] || 5.0 || 7.2
|-
| [[Infant mortality rate]]|| 27|| 47
|-
| [[Total fertility rate]] || 2.2 || 2.7
|-
| [[Rate of natural increase|Natural growth rate]]||9.9 || 14.9
|}

==Statistics==
As of 2010–11, there are 17 hospitals, 11 rural hospitals and community health centres, 79 primary health centres, 635 sub-centres/dispensaries, 7 blood banks and 7 blood storage centres in the state.<ref name="ecorev 2011 254-5">{{cite web|url=http://www.destripura.nic.in/review2010_11.pdf|title=Economic review of Tripura 2010–11|format=PDF|publisher=Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Planning (Statistics) Department, Government of Tripura|access-date=20 April 2012|pages=254-5|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124053410/http://www.destripura.nic.in/review2010_11.pdf|archive-date=24 January 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> Homeopathic and Ayurvedic styles of medicine are also popular in the state.<ref name="ecorev 2011 254-5"/> The number of beds in the four district of the state available for patients are as follows:<ref name="ecorev 2011 254-5"/>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Item !! West Tripura !! North Tripura !! South Tripura !! Dhalai !! Total
|-
| Number of beds||2235 || 445 || 601 || 270 || 3548
|-
| In Hospitals || 1937 || 200 || 325 || 200 || 2662
|-
| In PHCs/RHs ||298 || 242 || 276 || 70 || 886
|}

Although the state government is trying to promote family welfare and birth control, the target achievement in birth control measures has remained limited; none of the birth control methods achieved 50% of the target in 2010–11.<ref name="ecorev 2011 259-60">{{cite web|url=http://www.destripura.nic.in/review2010_11.pdf|title=Economic review of Tripura 2010–11|format=PDF|publisher=Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Planning (Statistics) Department, Government of Tripura|access-date=20 April 2012|pages=259–60|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124053410/http://www.destripura.nic.in/review2010_11.pdf|archive-date=24 January 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> Immunisation programs have been more successful, most immunisation programs achieved nearly 70% of the target.<ref name="ecorev 2011 259-60"/>

==Public and private sectors==
National Family Health Survey-3 revealed that 20% of the residents of Tripura do not generally use government health facilities, and prefers private medical sector.<ref name="nfhs3 438">{{cite web| url=http://www.measuredhs.com/pubs/pdf/FRIND3/FRIND3-Vol1AndVol2.pdf| author=International Institute for Population Sciences and Macro International| title=National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3), 2005–06| format=PDF| date=September 2007| access-date=5 October 2012| publisher=Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India| page=438}}</ref> This is overwhelmingly less compared to the national level, where 65.6% do not rely on government facilities.<ref name="nfhs3 438"/> As with the average of India, Tripura residents also cite poor quality of care as the most frequent reason for non-reliance over public health sector. Other reasons include distance of the public sector facility, long waiting time, and inconvenient hours of operation.<ref name="nfhs3 438"/>

==References==
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