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The primary health center or primary healthcare center (PHC) is the basic structural and functional unit of the public health services in developing countries.PHCs were established to provide accessible, affordable and available primary health care to people, in accordance with the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 by the member nations of the World Health Organization WHO.
Short-term measure – one Primary Health Centre was suggested for a population of 40,000. Each PHC was to be staffed by 2 doctors, one nurse, four public health nurses, four midwives, four trained dais, two sanitary inspectors, two health assistants, one pharmacist and fifteen other class IV employees. The first was established in 1952.
Primary Health Centre (PHCs), sometimes referred to as public health centres, [1] [2] are state-owned rural and urban health care facilities in India. [3] [4] They are essentially single-physician clinics usually with facilities for minor surgeries. They are part of the government-funded public health system in India and are the most basic ...
All the health centre staff report to the clinical officer in-charge except the public health officers and technicians who are deployed to a geographical area rather than to a health unit and report to the district public health officer even though they may have an office at the health centre. The health centre has the following departments:
The 253-bed, 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m 2) specialty block houses the outpatient clinics and inpatient wards of six specialties, eight operating theatres, six 29-bed intensive-care units and dialysis and kidney-transplant units. It is financed and administered by the Health and Family welfare Department of the government of Kerala.
The primary health centre of Tholur was taken over by the college in 1986, for regular training of medical students in community and preventive care. Ollur and Erumappetty primary health centres were also made available for training purposes. Construction of the 400-bed new medical college hospital was started in 1995.
Aam Aadmi Mohalla Clinics (AAMC), more popularly known as Mohalla Clinics, are primary health centres in the union territory of Delhi and the state of Punjab, India. They offer health services, including medicines, diagnostics, and consultations, for free. [1] The word mohalla in Hindi means "neighborhood" or "community". The main purpose of ...
Primary nursing is a system of nursing care delivery that emphasizes continuity of care and responsibility acceptance by having one registered nurse (RN), often teamed with a licensed practical nurse (LPN) and/or nursing assistant (NA), who together provide complete care for a group of patients throughout their stay in a hospital unit or department. [1]