Diagnoses of Acute illness and Getting Source Wise Treatment in Bihar State of India

Bihar State is one of the major Eastern State of India.  The state comprised of 104 million people and around 54 million (more than half) males as per census 2011.  The urban population was around 11.7 million only in 2011.  Urbanization in Bihar is one of the lowest among all the states in India. Here below the diagnosis of any kind of Acute Illnesses in Bihar 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 Bihar State.  Here below incidence of getting diagnosed of Acute illness in Bihar 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 Bihar State of India
Acute illness	Person		Male		Female
	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban
Diagnosed for any kind of Acute Illness	13306	10183	12756	9661	13879	10767
Getting Regular Treatment for any kind of Acute Illness	98.1	97.5	98.2	97.5	97.9	97.5
Getting Regular Treatment from Government Source for any kind of Acute Illness	10.6	7.1	10.8	6.9	10.4	7.2

It can be seen from above that confirmed prevalence of Acute Illness is higher in Rural Bihar (around 13% for males and 14% for females) than in Urban Bihar (around 9.7% for males and 10.8% for females). In both the areas, females are more acute ill than males.  Seeking of regular treatment is marginally higher in rural areas than urban.  Males are more for regular treatment than females.  But Government Sources are marginally popular in rural than urban areas. It is very clear that people irrespective of their place of residence are more for treatment of acute illness from private sources than from public facilities.  Only 7% of urban persons utilize the Government facilities, whereas 11% of rural persons use Government facilities.  Thus Government needs to strengthen the health care system in entire Bihar so that public may have to spend less from their pocket on health care.