NEW DELHI : Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana are the best performers in healthcare sector among large states, while Uttar Pradesh, a laggard previously, is catching up fast, showed the latest round of ranking by NITI Aayog, health ministry and the World Bank.
As per the ‘healthy states progressive India’ report released on Monday, Kerala emerged as the best performer in terms of overall performance for the fourth consecutive round.
Uttar Pradesh ranked at the bottom among 19 large states in the 2018-19 report, however, topped in the latest report— for 2019-20-- in terms of incremental performance.
On the other hand, top two overall performers in the latest report--Kerala and Tamil Nadu--ranked twelfth and eight respectively in terms