₹850 crore in 2019-20, compared to nearly ₹30,000 crore for rural. However, with rapid urban population growth, a lack of government primary and preventive health infrastructure in urban India poses a challenge.
Against a norm-based target of 9,072 urban primary health centres (UPHCs), only 5,190 are operational. Further, most states do not have urban sub-centres (SCs), people’s first point of access for healthcare services.
There are only 3,000 urban SCs compared to over 150,000 in rural areas.As a result, three-fourths of the population accesses basic healthcare at private facilities in urban areas, compared to two-thirds in rural.
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