Change on a year earlierApril 2021Healthcare system
West Bengal: outpatient attendance rose to 89,46,025 in April 2021, against 48,56,959 a year earlier (+84%).
What happened
- April 2021
- 89,46,025
- April 2020
- 48,56,959
- Change
- +40,89,066
- Change, per cent
- +84%
Why it matters
Comparing a week or month with the same week or month a year earlier removes ordinary seasonality: monsoon-season fever, the March reporting rush. What remains is change the calendar does not explain.
For outpatient attendance, neither a rise nor a fall is better in itself, so the observatory marks this movement as unusual rather than good or bad.
Historical context
Compared with the same month of 2020, which removes ordinary seasonality. This comparison involves the COVID-19 disruption period (March 2020 – June 2021), when service use and reporting fell sharply.
The underlying data
| Period | Value | Release | Where in the document |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2021 | 89,46,025 | HMIS item-wise monthly report, All India across states, April 2021 (FY 2021-22, provisional) | 2021-2022(Data is Provisional)/A.MonthWise/A-Apr.xlsx: '14.2.1' Allopathic- Outpatient attendance + '14.2.2' Ayush - Outpatient attendance; column "West Bengal", Total [(A+B) or (C+D)] |
| April 2020 | 48,56,959 | HMIS item-wise monthly report, All India across states, April 2020 (FY 2020-21, provisional) | 2020-2021(Data is Provisional)/A.MonthWise/A-Apr.xlsx: '14.2.1' Allopathic- Outpatient attendance + '14.2.2' Ayush - Outpatient attendance; column "West Bengal", Total [(A+B) or (C+D)] |
Source and method
More signals for outpatient attendance in West Bengal
Cite this
According to the India Health Observatory, West Bengal: outpatient attendance rose to 89,46,025 in April 2021, against 48,56,959 a year earlier (+84%). Source: Health Management Information System, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, HMIS item-wise monthly report, All India across states, April 2021 (FY 2021-22, provisional). https://indiahealthobservatory.com/signals/opd-attendance--west-bengal--2021-04--yoy_change
See also West Bengal and 89,46,025 in context.