Hdg: Across and within states, paediatricians concentrated where children aren’t

Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan between them account for nearly half of all children born in India each year but have barely one-sixth of the paediatricians in the country. The imbalance between where the need for child specialists is and where they are available is just as pronounced within states, with most of them concentrated in the bigger cities while the villages are where most children are.