Doctors and specialists in Erode
Find doctors, clinics and specialists in Erode, 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 Erode at a glance
Quick facts about Erode 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) | 7.1 lakh (705,000)Census 2011 scaled by a growth factor (estimate) |
|---|---|
| Population rank among top-100 cities | #94Small (<1M) |
| Estimated hospital beds in the city | ~1,300State beds per 1,000 x city population |
| Estimated ICU beds | ~67ICU assumed at 5% of beds |
| Estimated hospitals (public + private) | ~22Scaled from state totals |
| Estimated practising doctors, all systems | ~870National ratio of 1 per 811 people |
| Estimated nurses and midwives | ~1,600National ratio of 2.23 per 1,000 |
| Hospital beds per 1,000 (state) | 1.91India average about 1.39; Above avg |
| Private share of hospital beds (state) | 50%2019-era estimate |
| Infant mortality (state, 2024) | 11 per 1,000 live birthsIndia: 24 (SRS 2024) |
| Life expectancy at birth (state, 2023, modelled) | 75.0 yearsIndia: about 72 |
With around 7.1 lakh (705,000) people (2025 estimate, from Census 2011 scaled forward with a growth factor, so treat it as approximate), Erode is number 94 among the 100 largest cities in this directory and sits in the Small (<1M) size band. At the assumed growth of 2.2% a year, it would reach about 0.8 million by 2030, so demand for healthcare services is likely to keep rising.
Scaling Tamil Nadu's 1.91 beds per 1,000 people (the India-wide figure is about 1.39) to the city's population gives roughly 1,300 hospital beds in Erode, including about 67 ICU beds, spread across an estimated 22 hospitals (about 11 public and 11 private). That is about 524 residents for every bed and around 61 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 770 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 870 practising doctors across all systems of medicine in Erode, supported by around 1,600 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, Tamil Nadu's infant mortality rate is 11 per 1,000 live births (2024), well below the national figure of 24, and modelled life expectancy is about 75.0 years against roughly 72 for India; these are state-wide measures, not city measurements. About 50% of hospital beds in Tamil Nadu are private, so most people weigh private doctors and specialists against government outpatient departments. This directory lists 15 providers for Erode across 15 specialities, and 6 other cities in Tamil Nadu 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 Erode across 15 specialities. Specialities with no listing yet say so, and you can apply to be the first.
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