What are Primary Health Centre and secondary level of Healthcare ?

Primary Health Centre (PHC)

One PHC is approved for 30000 pop­u­la­tion in rur­al plain areas it is 1 PHC for every 20000 pop­u­la­tion in trib­al hilly areas. 

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The major func­tions of PHC includes health edu­ca­tion pro­mo­tion of Nutri­tion san­i­ta­tion immu­niza­tion MCH care appro­pri­ate treat­ment of com­mon dis­eases in these essen­tial drugs sup­ply imple­ment­ing and super­vis­ing var­i­ous Nation­al Health pro­grammes and refer­ral services. 

PHC will have med­ical offi­cers staff nurs­es nurs­ing assis­tants phar­ma­cist and oth­er sup­port­ing staff. 

Angan­wa­di cen­tres depart­ment of women and child devel­op­ment nutri­tion­al needs of preg­nant women attri­tion­al lead of read­er 26 year old chil­dren and adults and girls health require­ments are met through Angan­wa­di Cen­tre where food grains and med­i­cines are distributed. 

Secondary level of Healthcare 

It con­sists of Com­mu­ni­ty Health cen­tres rur­al hos­pi­tals dis­trict hos­pi­tals and Spe­cial­i­ty Hospital. 

Community Health centres (CHC)

One out off for PHC in a block is usu­al­ly a pro­rat­ed and recog­nised as a Com­mu­ni­ty Health Cen­tre (CHC). It should have 30 beds with spe­cial­ist in surgery med­i­cine gynae­col­o­gy it also should have Diag­nos­tic facil­i­ties like x‑ray and lab­o­ra­to­ry facil­i­ties. 1ch usu­al­ly cov­ered a pop­u­la­tion of 80000 Tu 202.

Health Insurance

No Uni­ver­sal Health Insur­ance is manda­to­ry in our coun­try, how­ev­er to insur­ance based pro­grams are well imple­ment­ed and man­aged in India. They are ESI and Cen­tral Gov­ern­ment Health Scheme. ESI was intro­duced in 1948 to pro­vide med­ical care for peo­ple work­ing in industries. 

Cen­tral Gov­ern­ment Health Scheme was intro­duced in 1954 and it cov­ers the employ­ees of autonomous. the major func­tions of PHC includes health edu­ca­tion pro­mo­tion of Nutri­tion san­i­ta­tion immu­niza­tion MCH care appro­pri­ate treat­ment of com­mon dis­eases in these essen­tial drugs sup­ply imple­ment­ing and super­vis­ing var­i­ous Nation­al Health pro­grammes and refer­ral services.