Original Article
Year: 2020 | Volume: 11 | Issue: 5 | Page No: 201-205
Situation Analysis of Implementation of National Health Programmes in Primary Health Centres (Phcs) At Uttarakhand
Author: Nishu Jha1, Bhavna Jain2, Radhika Bhati3, Aprajita Mehta4, Manisha Dhinwa5, Surekha Kishore6, Pradeep Aggarwal7, Sheen Job8
Affiliation:
1Doctor, Department of Community and Family Medicine, AIIMS, Rishikesh
2Senior resident, Department of Community and Family Medicine, AIIMS, Rishikesh
3Doctor, Department of Community and Family Medicine, AIIMS, Rishikesh
4Doctor, Department of Community and Family Medicine, AIIMS, Rishikesh
5BSc Honours Nursing, Department of Community and Family Medicine, AIIMS, Rishikesh
6Professor, Department of Community and Family Medicine, AIIMS, Rishikesh
7Associate Professor, Department of Community and Family Medicine, AIIMS, Rishikesh
8Doctor, Department of Community and Family Medicine, AIIMS, Rishikesh
Abstract:
Context: The Bhore Committee in 1946 gave the concept of PHC as comprehensive primary health care to the community and maintain an acceptable standard of quality of care. The study was conducted to assess the implementation of Na-tional Health Programmes at PHCs in Uttarakhand. Methodology: An observational cross-sectional study was conduct-ed at two PHCs (Thano and Rai-wala) from March 2019 to April 2019. Interviews of health function-aries and beneficiaries of national health programmes were done based on standard Indian Public Health Standards (IPHS) guidelines and check list, for both PHCs. Bene-ficiaries under each programme were also observed. Result: Various programmes such as Universal Immunization Pro-gramme, School Health Pro-gramme, and Pulse Polio Pro-gramme, National nutrition Pro-gramme, National family welfare Programme, NPCDCS and Jansan-khya Niyantran Yojna were imple-mented successfully at both PHCs. Although knowledge among pe-ripheral health workers was found to be little inadequate. Conclusion: The functioning and execution of some of the National Health Programs at PHCs Thano and Raiwala were found to be in-clined with IPHS guidelines.
Keywords: Indian Public Health Standards, National Health Programmes, Pri-mary Health Centers
DOI: 10.5455/njcm.20200515043037