1. Number of Health institutions.
2. Number of Beds in Health institutions.
3. Number of in-door & out-door patients treated in Health institutions.
4. Medical & Para-medical Personnel.

These statistics relate to Hospitals, Dispensaries, T.B Clinics, Rural Health Centers, Basic Health Units and Maternity & Child Health Centers located in the Sindh and administrated by Directorate General Health Services, Govt. of Sindh.

The Health institutions belonging to the Federal Govt., Defence Services and Private Doctors are not being covered.

The Health institutions belonging to Directorate General Health Services in the Province maintain the record of number of beds and outdoor and indoor Patients. All type of Health institutions supply annual statistical returns to the District Health Officers containing information of number of Patients treated for various diseases, number and type of operations performed etc.. The District Health officers submit consolidated returns to the Directorate General of Health Services where the information is tabulated and consolidated at the Provincial level.

A health institution is defined as an institution which provides health services i.e. curative and preventive to all/specific class of public as out-door/in-door patients.

Hospital is an institution having ten or more than ten beds. This definition is however not applicable to the institutions specially named by Government e.g. Rural Health Center Adilpur District Ghotki having twenty beds.

A dispensary is an institution having less than ten beds.