Shortage of PHCs plagues added areas in Chennai
11 years, 5 months ago

Shortage of PHCs plagues added areas in Chennai

The Hindu  

The added areas in the city are in dire need of more primary health centres with facilities for night clinics. The commissioning of additional centres and the rearrangement of existing centres is a vital step in relieving the pressure on tertiary care centres and offering primary healthcare to poor beneficiaries. According to Chennai Corporation sources, the added areas of the city require at least 40 primary health care centres. The Chennai Corporation has already done a baseline survey and identified problems including inequitable spatial distribution of centres with multiple service providers, unsuitable timings and distance from urban poor areas and overload on tertiary healthcare institutions.

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Over 30% of Chennai Corporation hospitals to get modern buildings to improve primary healthcare services
1 year ago

Over 30% of Chennai Corporation hospitals to get modern buildings to improve primary healthcare services

The Hindu  

The Greater Chennai Corporation will construct modern buildings at 46 locations to improve urban primary healthcare in the city. Once these buildings are constructed, urban primary healthcare services are expected to improve in many areas. At present, around 23,000 inpatients visit 140 hospitals of the Chennai Corporation for primary healthcare services. The civic body has invited bids for the construction …

1,125 PHCs renovated in AP with ₹670 crore: Minister Vidadala Rajini
1 year, 8 months ago

1,125 PHCs renovated in AP with ₹670 crore: Minister Vidadala Rajini

Deccan Chronicle  

Visakhapatnam: State government has renovated 1,125 public health centres in the state under Nadu Nedu scheme, spending ₹670 crore during the last four years, said health and family welfare minister Vidadala Rajini on Tuesday. Further, the state government is planning to build 10,032 YSR Health Clinics by spending ₹1,692 crore. Similarly, Rajini said ₹1,223 crore has been sanctioned to build …

Building 10k PHCs in AP, says health minister Rajani
1 year, 10 months ago

Building 10k PHCs in AP, says health minister Rajani

Deccan Chronicle  

Visakhapatnam: Health and Family Welfare Minister Vidadala Rajani said the State government has taken up an ambitious project of constructing 10,032 public health centers across the state to augment the health services. Talking to the media persons after inaugurating a urban health hospital with 10 beds in Peda Gantyada mandal in 77th division of GVMC in Anakapalli district on Tuesday, …

Telangana\'s primary health centres ailing, need infra boost
2 years, 4 months ago

Telangana\'s primary health centres ailing, need infra boost

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Staff shortages, lack of funds, and delays in the construction of infrastructure for hospitals and health centres in districts have reaffirmed medical associations' concerns about the state's primary health care system. According to information provided in a response to an RTI, only 72 staff members work out of a total sanctioned strength of 258 in various departments at the …

Excess Primary Healthcare Centres Established In State In Terms Of Population Ratio: State Tells Karnataka High Court
3 years, 3 months ago

Excess Primary Healthcare Centres Established In State In Terms Of Population Ratio: State Tells Karnataka High Court

Live Law  

The Karnataka Government has informed the High Court that an excess of 822 Public Health Centres have been established in terms of the population ratio in the state. The statement was made in a compliance report filed in response to the Public Interest Litigation filed by one Gurunath Vadde seeking to start a hospital at the gram panchayat level. In …

All south Delhi wards to get primary health care centre, civic agency says
3 years, 4 months ago

All south Delhi wards to get primary health care centre, civic agency says

Hindustan Times  

The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has approved a proposal for setting up primary health care facilities in civic wards which still have no such units, even as a few officials pointed out that the shortage of health workers may pose a hurdle in staffing these new units. Col BK Oberoi, the standing committee chairman, said that primary health care facilities, …

Manish Tewari: What we need is a New Deal for health
4 years, 11 months ago

Manish Tewari: What we need is a New Deal for health

Deccan Chronicle  

The most tragic image of the Covid-19 crisis so far has been of the millions of abandoned workers fleeing the cruel metropolises of our country, yearning for the safety of home and hearth. On paper India’s basic health infrastructure looks impressive with 1,52,326 sub-centres, 25,020 primary health centres and 5,363 community health centres providing health services to 72.2 per cent …

India’s rural public health facilities need urgent fixing
7 years ago

India’s rural public health facilities need urgent fixing

Live Mint  

Kamla is a young mother in a north Indian village. To appreciate Kamla’s challenges, it’s important to understand India’s rural public health system. Sadly, this first essential point of medical care has neither the diagnostics nor beds available to handle Gopi’s case. There is an 82% shortfall in total surgeons, obstetricians and gynaecologists, physicians, and paediatricians across CHCs in India, …

It's boom time for Kozhikode health sector
7 years, 8 months ago

It's boom time for Kozhikode health sector

Deccan Chronicle  

Kozhikode: The health sector in the city is on a growth trajectory with half a dozen new hi-tech hospitals lining up resulting in enhanced competition, poaching of proven medical experts and induction of advanced technology in the sector. However, a section of medical experts see it as a symptom of an unhealthy health care system, saying most of them provide …

Kozhikode: New primary health clinics to treat common diseases soon
8 years, 1 month ago

Kozhikode: New primary health clinics to treat common diseases soon

Deccan Chronicle  

KOZHIKODE: The National Urban Health Mission will start new primary health clinics in the city soon to solve the shortage of such clinics to treat common diseases. A preliminary meeting to work out the details will be held in Kozhikode on February 22 and Koyilandy on February 23 in which elected representatives from all the urban civic bodies will participate. …

Delhi to have 12 more government hospitals
11 years, 11 months ago

Delhi to have 12 more government hospitals

India TV News  

New Delhi, Mar 29: The Delhi government is set to built 12 new hospitals with total bed strength of 2,900, Health Minister A.K. “The process to start the construction of hospitals in Dwarka, Vikaspuri, Madipur, Jawlapuri, Ambedkar Nagar and Sarita Vihar has been initiated. The formalities are underway for the remaining six hospitals,” Walia said.He speaking while laying the foundation …

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