Data file E&P of Public Hoispitals in Mizoram.xlsx

Majority of the population of Mizoram relies on public hospitals as a primary provider of healthcare services. These hospitals are burdened with the ever-increasing demand for healthcare without much improvement in resource allocation and equitable distribution of manpower in the healthcare sector. Mizoram spends only 4.2 per cent of its GSDP on healthcare as per the report of National Health Profile, 2020. This paper aims to investigate the efficiency and productivity of public hospitals in Mizoram following the post-reform period, and to compare these findings with hospitals in other states across India. We utilized the input-oriented variable returns to scale model of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compute efficiency scores. Subsequently, we applied the Malmquist Total Factor Productivity Index to assess productivity trends over time. Data of 11 public hospitals was collected from the Ministry of Health, Mizoram form the period 2016-17 to 2022-23. The findings highlight that most of the public hospitals in Mizoram operate on an efficient level with an overall technical efficiency of 0.914. Furthermore, total factor productivity increased by 7 per cent during the study period. This paper suggests the need for reallocation of manpower from inefficient to efficient hospitals. The paper provides a novel insight regarding the health care sector’s efficiency and productivity in which has been overlooked till date.