Punjab to evaluate health services

Punjab has a chain of 484 primary health centres and 105 community health centres to provide health care facilities, besides other hospitals.

Bajaj said the authorities were aware of the problem of the doctors posted in the rural areas not attending to work and other such issues. A survey of community health centres would also be ordered later.

The facilities at the district level hospitals would be upgraded under the programme which is to being implemented by the Punjab Health Systems Corporation under the World Bank project.

The Punjab government has proposed an outlay of Rs. 636.15 crore during the ninth plan period for the health sector which constitute 4.45 per cent of the 8th plan outlay as compared to 3.88 per cent during the 8th plan. The state government would set up 50 health centres, 50 community health centres and 40 new dispensaries in the urban slum areas during the 9th plan.

The need for restructuring of the urban health care and making adequate provisions for strengthening of the urban primary health care infrastructure was emphasised at the meeting.It was decided that the University of Health Sciences being set up a Faridkot would be an affiliating and examining university.