Improving Rural Healthcare Infrastructure

(Judicial Quest News Service)

As per the budget announcement 2017-18, 1,50,000 Health Sub Centres and Primary Health Centres are to be transformed into Health and Wellness Centres (AB-HWCs) by December, 2022 to provide Comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC) to ensure health for all.

Under AB-HWCs, CPHC includes promotive, preventive, curative, palliative and rehabilitative services. The AB-HWCs are envisioned to provide an expanded range of services to include care for non-communicable diseases, palliative and rehabilitative care, Oral, Eye and ENT care, mental health and first level care for emergencies and trauma as well as health promotion and wellness activities like Yoga apart from services already being provided for Maternal and Child Health including immunization and communicable diseases. Free essential drugs and diagnostic services are also being provisioned through these HWCs.

As per Rural Health Statistics(RHS), 2018, as on 31.03.2018, there are 150 Community Health Centres (CHCs) and 1899 Primary Health Centres (PHCs) in Bihar. State-wise details of shortfall in PHCs and CHCs is given below:

SHORTFALL IN HEALTH FACILITIES AS PER 2011 POPULATION IN INDIA (As on 31st March, 2018)
S.No.	State/ UT	PHCs	CHCs
R	P	S	% Shortfall	R	P	S	% Shortfall
1	Andhra Pradesh	1197	1147	50	4	299	193	106	35
2	Arunachal Pradesh	48	143	*	*	12	63	*	*
3	Assam	954	946	8	1	238	172	66	28
4	Bihar	3099	1899	1200	39	774	150	624	81
5	Chhattisgarh	774	793	*	*	193	169	24	12
6	Goa	19	25	*	*	4	4	0	0
7	Gujarat	1290	1474	*	*	322	363	*	*
8	Haryana	550	368	182	33	137	113	24	18
9	Himachal Pradesh	212	576	*	*	53	91	*	*
10	Jammu & Kashmir	327	637	*	*	81	84	*	*
11	Jharkhand	966	298	668	69	241	171	70	29
12	Karnataka	1306	2359	*	*	326	206	120	37
13	Kerala	589	849	*	*	147	227	*	*
14	Madhya Pradesh	1989	1171	818	41	497	309	188	38
15	Maharashtra	2201	1823	378	17	550	361	189	34
16	Manipur	80	91	*	*	20	23	*	*
17	Meghalaya	114	108	6	5	28	28	0	0
18	Mizoram	25	57	*	*	6	9	*	*
19	Nagaland	68	126	*	*	17	21	*	*
20	Odisha	1315	1288	27	2	328	377	*	*
21	Punjab	578	432	146	25	144	151	*	*
22	Rajasthan	1861	2078	*	*	465	588	*	*
23	Sikkim	18	24	*	*	4	2	2	50
24	Tamil Nadu	1251	1421	*	*	312	385	*	*
25	Telangana	768	643	125	16	192	91	101	53
26	Tripura	109	108	1	1	27	22	5	19
27	Uttarakhand	238	257	*	*	59	67	*	*
28	Uttar Pradesh	5194	3621	1573	30	1298	822	476	37
29	West Bengal	2153	913	1240	58	538	348	190	35
30	A & N Islands	8	22	*	*	2	4	*	*
31	Chandigarh	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	D & N Haveli	8	9	*	*	2	2	0	0
33	Daman & Diu	2	4	*	*	0	2	*	*
34	Delhi	13	5	8	62	3	0	3	100
35	Lakshadweep	0	4	*	*	0	3	*	*
36	Puducherry	13	24	*	*	3	3	0	0
	All India/ Total	29337	25743	6430	22	7322	5624	2188	30

The State Government has intimated that a super specialty 100 bedded Mother & Child hospital (MCH) is being constructed in District Hospital, Muzaffarpur at an estimated cost of 13.5 Crores; the construction is already under way and is at finishing stage.

Proposals from the State have been invited for setting up of a 100 bedded Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (P-ICU) at Shri Krishna Medical College & Hospital, Muzaffarpur; five virology labs in different districts and 10 bedded Paediatric ICUs in other districts, to be supported under National Health Mission (NHM).           

The Minister of State (Health and Family Welfare), ShAshwini Kumar Choubey stated this in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha here today.