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

Odisha is another one of the major Eastern State of India.  The state comprised of 42 million people and around 21 million (more than half) males as per census 2011.  The urban population was around 7 million in 2011 i.e. the urbanization in the state was not even 17%.  Here below the diagnosis of any kind of Acute Illnesses in Odisha 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 Odisha State.  Here below incidence of getting diagnosed of Acute illness in Odisha 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 Odisha State of India
Acute illness	Person		Male		Female
	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban
Diagnosed for any kind of Acute Illness	9976	7364	9765	7031	10186	7714
Getting Regular Treatment for any kind of Acute Illness	95.9	96.2	95.9	96.6	95.8	95.8
Getting Regular Treatment from Government Source for any kind of Acute Illness	54.0	38.0	54.9	38.1	53.1	37.8

It can be seen from above that confirmed prevalence of Acute Illness is higher in Rural Odisha (around 9.8% for males and 10.2% for females) than in Urban Odisha (around 7% for males and 7.7% 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.  Both Rural and Urban males are little more for regular treatment.  In Odisha Government Sources are more popular in rural than urban 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 Odisha for depending more on Government Sources. As against the observation in other EAG states, people in Odisha are depending more on Government sources for the treatment of acute illness irrespective of place of residence or sex of the person.