ibps-rrb-os1 2012 · Question 131 of 183

Yoshihiko Noda was on a visit to India recently. He is the present Prime Minister of

1. AMyanmar
2. BSouth Korea
3. CNorth Korea
4. DJapanCorrect
5. ENone of these Test-IV: English Language Directions (Q. 151-160): In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words/phrases are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case. Rural healthcare in India is (151) by a huge gap between supply and demand. Currently, rural healthcare needs are (152) either by limited government facilities and private nursing homes, which have not bean able to keep pace with increasing demand, (153) by a number of quacks who practise medicine in rural areas. The qual- ity of infrastructure is usually poor and people (154) up having to go to nearby large cities if they need high-quality care. Rural India deserves better, since the ability to pay has gone up over the last few years, driven by growth in income and penetration of government healthcare pro- grammes. Increasing demand, (155) with the failure of existing infrastructure to scale, has resulted in rural healthcare (156) a large under-served market. Absence of a viable business model (157) conversion of the huge rural expenditure on health into an eco- nomic activity that generates incomes and (158) the poor. It is this (159) that entre- preneurs are looking to (160).