Doctors and specialists in Ranchi
Find doctors, clinics and specialists in Ranchi, with phone, address and map. Choose a speciality below: each page explains what to check before booking, when to see a specialist and what local healthcare capacity looks like.
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Healthcare in Ranchi at a glance
Quick facts about Ranchi and its healthcare system. Hospital, bed and doctor figures are estimates scaled from state and national data, because no public source counts them city by city.
| City population (2025 estimate) | 1.6 million (16 lakh)UN World Population Prospects 2024, urban-area figure |
|---|---|
| Population rank among top-100 cities | #47Mid (1-2M) |
| Estimated hospital beds in the city | ~1,200State beds per 1,000 x city population |
| Estimated ICU beds | ~58ICU assumed at 5% of beds |
| Estimated hospitals (public + private) | ~59Scaled from state totals |
| Estimated practising doctors, all systems | ~2,000National ratio of 1 per 811 people |
| Estimated nurses and midwives | ~3,600National ratio of 2.23 per 1,000 |
| Hospital beds per 1,000 (state) | 0.71India average about 1.39; Below avg |
| Private share of hospital beds (state) | 59%2019-era estimate |
| Infant mortality (state, 2024) | 27 per 1,000 live birthsIndia: 24 (SRS 2024) |
| Life expectancy at birth (state, 2023, modelled) | 71.0 yearsIndia: about 72 |
With around 1.6 million (16 lakh) people (2025 estimate, from the UN's 2024 World Population Prospects urban-area estimate), Ranchi is number 47 among the 100 largest cities in this directory and sits in the Mid (1-2M) size band. At the assumed growth of 2.4% a year, it would reach about 1.8 million by 2030, so demand for healthcare services is likely to keep rising.
Scaling Jharkhand's 0.71 beds per 1,000 people (the India-wide figure is about 1.39) to the city's population gives roughly 1,200 hospital beds in Ranchi, including about 58 ICU beds, spread across an estimated 59 hospitals (about 24 public and 35 private). That is about 1408 residents for every bed and around 20 beds per hospital on average. Measured against the WHO's often-quoted benchmark of 3 beds per 1,000 people, the city would need roughly 3,700 more beds, which is one reason private clinics and hospitals carry so much of the load.
The same national ratio of one practising doctor per 811 people suggests about 2,000 practising doctors across all systems of medicine in Ranchi, supported by around 3,600 nurses and midwives. Specialist head-counts are not published city by city, so these figures show overall scale rather than the number of any one speciality.
On health outcomes, Jharkhand's infant mortality rate is 27 per 1,000 live births (2024), above the national figure of 24, and modelled life expectancy is about 71.0 years against roughly 72 for India; these are state-wide measures, not city measurements. About 59% of hospital beds in Jharkhand are private, so most people weigh private doctors and specialists against government outpatient departments. This directory lists 15 providers for Ranchi across 15 specialities, and 2 other cities in Jharkhand have their own doctor page below.
General information compiled from public sources (MoHFW, SRS 2024, CDDEP / One Health Trust, UN WPP 2024, Census 2011); estimates, not official counts, and not medical advice.
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We currently list 15 providers in Ranchi across 15 specialities. Specialities with no listing yet say so, and you can apply to be the first.
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