Doctors and specialists in Nagpur

Healthcare in Nagpur at a glance

Quick facts about Nagpur 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.

Nagpur has an estimated 3.2 million (32 lakh) residents in 2025, based on the UN's 2024 World Population Prospects urban-area estimate. That makes it number 19 among the 100 largest cities in this directory, and falls in our Large (2-5M) size band. At the assumed growth of 2.1% a year, it would reach about 3.5 million by 2030, so demand for healthcare services is likely to keep rising.

Scaling Maharashtra's 1.83 beds per 1,000 people (the India-wide figure is about 1.39) to the city's population gives roughly 5,800 hospital beds in Nagpur, including about 290 ICU beds, spread across an estimated 80 hospitals (about 18 public and 62 private). That is about 546 residents for every bed and around 72 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 3,900 practising doctors across all systems of medicine in Nagpur, supported by around 7,100 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, Maharashtra's infant mortality rate is 13 per 1,000 live births (2024), well below the national figure of 24, and modelled life expectancy is about 74.5 years against roughly 72 for India; these are state-wide measures, not city measurements. About 78% of hospital beds in Maharashtra are private, so most people weigh private doctors and specialists against government outpatient departments. This directory lists 15 providers for Nagpur across 15 specialities, and 18 other cities in Maharashtra 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.