The bed to patient ratio at the Centre-run RML Hospital in Delhi in 2015 and 2016 was 1:52 and 1:54 respectively, Parliament was informed today.

In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Ashwini Kumar Choubey said that the primary responsibility to increase bed-to-patient ratio lies with respective state or Union Territory (UT) government as public health and hospitals were state subjects.According to the data shared by the minister, the bed- to-patient ratio for the RML Hospital in 2015 and 2016 were 1:52 and 1:54.5 respectively.

The corresponding figure for Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC) for the two years were 1:07 and 1:06 respectively while for Safdarjung Hospital the ratio was 1:2 for both the years, it said.LHMC and Safdarjung Hospital are also run by the central government."Expansion of existing and creation of new facilities in central government hospitals are under process and are undertaken as per requirement and availability of resources," he said.