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Shortfall of specialists at CHCs
Share of sanctioned specialist posts at Community Health Centres (CHCs) that are vacant. Covers Surgeons, Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, Physicians, and Paediatricians: the four core specialist cadres mandated at every CHC. Lower is better.
Tamil Nadu's chc specialist gap is 39.0% % of sanctioned posts (2022-23), per Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW), Statistics Division.
Tamil Nadu, latest
39.0%
2022-23
Last verified
Change
+2.6%
2014-15 → 2022-23
Rank vs compared states
#2 of 5
TN vs MH, KA, GJ, UP · lower is better
Tamil Nadu's CHC specialist gap is 39.0% (2022-23), up +2.6% since 2014-15. It ranks #2 of 5 compared states (lower is better).
About this indicator
This is the share of sanctioned specialist posts at Community Health Centres, such as surgeons, physicians, obstetricians, and paediatricians, that sit vacant, a direct measure of how well rural referral hospitals are staffed for specialist care. High vacancy pushes patients toward district hospitals or private care and weakens the referral chain. Because it is measured against sanctioned posts, a state can understate need by keeping the number of sanctioned posts low, so read it alongside overall facility and population coverage.
Tamil Nadu's CHC specialist gap rose from 38.0% (2014-15) to 39.0% (2022-23).
Source: Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW), Statistics Division
Compare with Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh
- 1 GJ Gujarat 70.0% 2022-23
- 2 UP Uttar Pradesh 60.0% 2022-23
- 3 KA Karnataka 45.0% 2022-23
- 4 TN Tamil Nadu 39.0% 2022-23
- 5 MH Maharashtra 36.0% 2022-23
Tamil Nadu highlighted. Each row shows that state's value and the year it is from. Compare like years with care.
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Methodology & notes
Rural Health Statistics (MoHFW). Shortfall = (sanctioned − in-position) ÷ sanctioned × 100, aggregated across the four core specialist cadres.
All values
Every observation, by state and period. Newest first.
Tamil Nadu
- FY23 2022-23 39.0%
- FY22 2021-22 40.0%
- FY21 2020-21 41.0%
- FY20 2019-20 41.0%
- FY19 2018-19 43.0%
- FY18 2017-18 41.0%
- FY17 2016-17 42.0%
- FY16 2015-16 39.0%
- FY15 2014-15 38.0%
Maharashtra 9 values
- FY23 2022-23 36.0%
- FY22 2021-22 37.0%
- FY21 2020-21 38.0%
- FY20 2019-20 39.0%
- FY19 2018-19 44.0%
- FY18 2017-18 41.0%
- FY17 2016-17 39.0%
- FY16 2015-16 35.0%
- FY15 2014-15 33.0%
Karnataka 9 values
- FY23 2022-23 45.0%
- FY22 2021-22 45.0%
- FY21 2020-21 47.0%
- FY20 2019-20 47.0%
- FY19 2018-19 50.0%
- FY18 2017-18 49.0%
- FY17 2016-17 47.0%
- FY16 2015-16 43.0%
- FY15 2014-15 41.0%
Gujarat 9 values
- FY23 2022-23 70.0%
- FY22 2021-22 71.0%
- FY21 2020-21 74.0%
- FY20 2019-20 75.0%
- FY19 2018-19 80.0%
- FY18 2017-18 84.0%
- FY17 2016-17 86.0%
- FY16 2015-16 89.0%
- FY15 2014-15 90.0%
Uttar Pradesh 9 values
- FY23 2022-23 60.0%
- FY22 2021-22 62.0%
- FY21 2020-21 64.0%
- FY20 2019-20 65.0%
- FY19 2018-19 70.0%
- FY18 2017-18 76.0%
- FY17 2016-17 73.0%
- FY16 2015-16 70.0%
- FY15 2014-15 64.0%
Cross-state comparison (FY23)
Sorted low → high. Tamil Nadu highlighted.
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