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

Chhattisgarh is a Eastern State of India.  The state comprised of 25.5 million people and around 12.8 million (little more than half) males as per census 2011.  The urban population was around 5.9 million in 2011 i.e. the state is urbanized around 23%.  Here below the diagnosis of any kind of Acute Illnesses in Chhattisgarh 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 Chhattisgarh State.  Here below incidence of getting diagnosed of Acute illness in Chhattisgarh 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 Chhattisgarh State of India
Acute illness	Person		Male		Female
	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban
Diagnosed for any kind of Acute Illness	10096	8480	9695	7880	10507	9116
Getting Regular Treatment for any kind of Acute Illness	93.5	95.8	94.1	96.5	93.0	95.1
Getting Regular Treatment from Government Source for any kind of Acute Illness	21.5	14.1	21.7	14.3	21.3	13.9

It can be seen from above that confirmed prevalence of Acute Illness is higher in Rural Chhattisgarh (9.7% for males and 10.5% for females) than in Urban Chhattisgarh (7.9% for males and 9.1% for females). In both the areas, females are more acute ill than males.  Seeking of regular treatment is little higher in urban areas than rural for both the sexes. 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 Chhattisgarh for depending more on Government Sources.  Only 14% of urban persons utilize the Government facilities, whereas 21.5% of rural persons use Government facilities.  Thus, Government needs to strengthen the health care system in Chhattisgarh, particularly in cities and towns, so that public may have to spend less from their pocket on health care.