Which regions in India are doing well in NABH Accreditation? A peek into the accreditation data.

During a recent discussion with a friend, a question came up – Which city/state/regions in India are doing well in terms of NABH accreditation? No one had a number at hand, except that 137 hospitals hold the accreditation and 2 of them having their status as “Accreditation kept in Abeyance” as we speak.

I got a chance to do what I love the most – Data analysis! Here’s the summary of data I found from NABH’s website, with the reference link: http://www.nabh.co/main/hospitals/accredited.asp (last accessed on July 20^th, 2012).

Here’s an alphabetical listing of city-wise number of accredited hospitals as of date:

City/State	No. of Accredited Hospitals
Ahmedabad	3
Amritsar	1
Bangalore	14
Bhavnagar	1
Calicut	2
Chennai	6
Cochin	1
Coimbatore	5
Ernakulum	1
Faridabad	4
Gandhinagar	2
Ghaziabad	3
Gurgaon	5
Hyderabad	10
Jaipur	4
Kalyan	1
Kerala	1
Kochi	1
Kolkata	3
Lucknow	1
Madurai	1
Manipal	1
Meerut	1
Mohali	2
Mumbai	7
Mysore	1
Nagpur	2
Namakkal	1
Nashik	1
New Delhi	29
Noida	4
Pune	2
Rajkot	1
Secunderabad	4
Sholingur	1
Surat	1
Thane	1
Thiruvananthapuram	1
Trichur	1
Udaipur	1
Vadodara	4
Visakhapatnam	1
Total	137

If we do a region-wise segmentation, the numbers would look like this:

Region	No. of Accredited Hospitals
East	3
North	50
South	53
West	31
Total	137

Clearly, NABH had the major impact closer to its base as Delhi has the maximum number of accredited hospitals, followed by my home-sweet-home Bangalore and Hyderabad finishes third.

Among themselves, the four metro cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai account for 45 accredited hospitals, which is one-third the total number of accredited hospitals. Of course, Kolkata only contributes 3 hospitals to this sum, so I would say just 3 cities contribute 30% of the total accredited hospitals. Shouldn’t it be a cause of concern?

Region-wise, I got a shocker, with Eastern India only having 3 accredited hospitals, which is a paltry 2% of the total. I guess either NABH has not promoted itself well in the east of the country, or there aren’t good standard hospitals in that region. I hope the former is true. North and South share among themselves more than 100 accredited hospitals. But in the Northern region, except for Delhi, other states haven’t done as well as they should have done. Clearly, there is need to create awareness about NABH in those states and I would be happy if we could help.

In the South, there is a relatively even spread of accredited hospitals in various states, but Karnataka seems to have the edge. One possible reason could be the fact that Bangalore is the hub of a lot of activities that NABH conducts in the southern region (as per my observation).