Is there a chemist or a private doctor in the Dholera villages?

The census counted no medicine shop and no private practitioner of any kind in any of the 22 villages in 2009. Private clinics are also outside every government list used here, so absence in the record is not proof of absence on the ground.

Health

Chemists and private doctors

If a child spikes a fever at night, who is within reach? This page prints what the census found outside the government system in the 22 Dholera villages: medicine shops, private doctors, and traditional practitioners.

0medicine shops counted in the 22 villages

Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Surveyed 2009.

0private practitioners of any kind, degree or no degree

Nine separate census categories, all recorded zero.

4government dispensaries, in four different villages

The only non-hospital dispensing point the census found.

The short answer, and the honest caveat

Across all 22 villages the census counted 6 private medical facilities of any kind. That includes medicine shops, private doctors with a degree, private doctors without a degree, and traditional practitioners. The count is zero in every category and in every village.

This matters for an ordinary decision. If someone at home runs a fever at ten at night, the question is not where the hospital is, it is where the nearest person who can hand you a strip of tablets is. On this record, that person was not in the village.

Now the caveat, and it is a real one. This is a government survey of what was declared in 2009. A shop that opened in 2015 is not in it. Nor is a practitioner who was there in 2009 and simply did not get recorded. Read the zero as the last national survey finding nothing, not as proof that nothing exists.

Everything the census counts outside government health, across all 22 villagesCensus of India 2011, Village Directory. The amenity columns carry an internal reference year of 2009, so this describes the ground in 2009 and not today.

Everything the census counts outside government health, across all 22 villages
Kind of facility	Total counted	Villages with any	Reading
Medicine shop	0	0	recorded zero in every village
Private out-patient facility	0	0	recorded zero in every village
Private in-patient and out-patient facility	1	1	present
Charitable medical facility	0	0	recorded zero in every village
Practitioner with an MBBS degree	0	0	recorded zero in every village
Practitioner with another degree	5	3	present
Practitioner with no degree	0	0	recorded zero in every village
Traditional practitioner or faith healer	0	0	recorded zero in every village
Other private facility	0	0	recorded zero in every village
All nine categories	6	0

Where this comes from: Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India, District Census Handbook, Village Directory, Gujarat (state code 24), sheet Village_Data_2400, 396 columns. Census year 2011, amenity reference year 2009.
Last verified: 10 August 2026.

What this table cannot tell you It cannot see a private clinic that opened after 2009, and it cannot see an informal one at all. The census enumerator recorded what was declared to them in the village. A chemist trading today would not appear in this table, because this table stopped being updated seventeen years ago.

What government health there is, for comparison

The government side of the same question is on two other pages, and it is thin as well. Three Primary Health Centres operate in Dholera taluka on the state list as on 15 August 2018, and no Community Health Centre operates anywhere in it on the national health mission list as on 30 June 2021.

One warning that applies to this whole page. The census amenity columns describe 2009, not 2026. Nothing built in the Dholera region after 2009 is in them, and an absence here is not proof of an absence on the ground today. It is proof that the last national survey of these villages did not find one.