Quality Of Rural Healthcare Centres Has Dipped Drastically In 15 States

Quality in healthcare should be the right of every patient but the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) report is suggesting an indifferent scenario in the rural healthcare system. According to the report, out of the 36 states, 15 states have lacked basic yet essential facilities like infrastructure, a minimum requirement of manpower, and required medical equipment and drugs.

Indian Public Health Standards (IPHS) is a standard set by MoHFW for improving the quality of infrastructure and its norms are set to improve the quality and functioning of government hospitals. According to the CPR report: Type of subcentre Total number of centres Number of centres that met IPHS standards Number of centres that didn’t meet IPHS standards HWCs that met IPHS in 2016 (%) HWCs that met IPHS in 2018 (%) Subcentres (SCs) 158000 11000 147000 18 06 Primary health centres (PHCs) 25700 3000 22,700 21 12…