Rural healthcare infrastructure needs booster dose amid Covid-19 pandemic

Health in rural India is a three-tiered system, with sub-centres (SC) as the most peripheral and the first points of contact

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Healthcare Infrastructure | Rural health | Rural India

Ruchika Chitravanshi  |  New Delhi 

The second wave of the pandemic ravaging the villages of India has laid bare the severe shortcomings in the country’s rural healthcare infrastructure. Health in rural India is a three-tiered system, with sub-centres (SC) as the most peripheral and the first points of contact.

After those come the primary health centres (PHC) and then the community health centres (CHC), maintained by state governments. Each of these are covering more population than they are intended for. While there has been an increase in the facilities compared to 2005, accord­ing to the health ministry ...

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First Published: Mon, June 07 2021. 06:10 IST
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