RCH Facility Survey in Punjab, Haryana, and Jammu & Kashmir (Region 10)

Agency : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, implemented a Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) programme in the country. Under this programme a range of reproductive and child health services is provided through a network of government health facilities. The programme also aimed to strengthen health infrastructure in terms of trained staff, equipment and supplies to enable the facilities to provide good quality RCH services. The Government of India had decided to undertake a facility survey at the district level to assess the availability of trained staff, equipment and supplies and their utilisation at different health facility levels. This time the facility survey also included the survey of ISM (Indian System of Medicine) hospitals and ISM dispensaries under the government, which had not been included in the earlier RCH facility survey.

The facility survey was conducted a) to assess the facilities having critical inputs as per the norms stipulated under the project; b) to assess the availability of critical items against the consignee lists supplied by the districts; c) utilisation of facilities for providing RCH services; d) utilisation of CHCs and FRUs as referral units; and e) service quality assessment using appropriate outcome indicators at each level

The IIHMR was assigned the task of conducting the facility survey in Region 10 consisting of three states; Punjab, Haryana and Jammu & Kashmir. In all, 31 districts were covered. The district level reports were prepared for each district. A state level report for each of the three states was also prepared.


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