Diagnoses of Acute Illness and Getting Source Wise Treatment in Assam State of India

Assam is the major North-Eastern State of India.  The state comprised of 31 million people and around 16 million (more than half) males as per census 2011.  The urban population was around 4.4 million with males 2.3 millions in 2011.  Here below the diagnosis of any kind of Acute Illnesses in Assam State has been given sex wise and as per their residence too. These rates are based on one Large Scale Annual Health Survey which was conducted in the year 2010-11 for eight EAG States besides the state of Assam State.  Here below incidence of getting diagnosed of Acute illness in Assam State have been given per one lakh (one tenth of a million) persons, males and females besides the percentage of people getting regular treatment from Government and all sources combined.

Having Diagnosed (Per Lakh) and Percent Seeking  Treatment of Any Kind of Acute Illness Source Wise in Assam State of India
Acute illness	Person		Male		Female
	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban
Diagnosed for any kind of Acute Illness	11704	8978	11182	8413	12248	9589
Getting Regular Treatment for any kind of Acute Illness	86.4	87.3	86.5	87.5	86.3	87.2
Getting Regular Treatment from Government Source for any kind of Acute Illness	37.1	29.6	37.0	29.0	37.2	30.2

It can be seen from above that confirmed prevalence of Acute Illness is higher in Rural Assam (around 11.2% for males and 12.2% for females) than in Urban Assam (around 8.4% for males and 9.6% for females). In both the areas, females are more acute ill than males.  Seeking of regular treatment is marginally higher in urban areas than rural.  Urban males are little more for regular treatment comparatively.  But Government Sources are not popular in Urban than rural areas.  Probably, private facilities may be better equipped as compared to Government set up in urban areas and the availability of Government facilities may be better in rural areas as compared to the private sector clinics and affordability problem may be the second best reason for rural Assam for depending more on Government Sources.