1 doctor for 1,000 people: WHO ‘standard’ that never was | India News
World Health Organization recommends a ratio of one doctor for every 1,000 population, right? Wrong. WHO has denied ever making such a recommendation and cautions against using a metric used to facilitate inter-country comparison as a benchmark for health human resource planning at the national level.The head of WHO’s hea-lth workforce unit, Dr Giorgio Cometto,…