Lok Sabha Question No. 4092 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-08-10
Subject: CGHS Dispensaries
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: RAMESH CHANDER KAUSHIK, DINESH TRIVEDI, RAKESH SINGH

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4092 TO BE ANSWERED ON 10 TH AUGUST, 2018

## CGHS DISPENSARIES

## 4092. SHRI RAMESH CHANDER KAUSHIK: SHRI DINESH TRIVEDI: SHRI RAKESH SINGH:

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of number of Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) Dispensaries/Wellness centres functioning in the country as on date, State/UT - wise, including West Bengal, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh;
- (b) the details of criteria adopted to open CGHS dispensary/Wellness centres in the country;
- (c) whether the Government has any proposal to amend the criteria to open the said dispensaries keeping in view the low penetration of serving employees/ pensioners, if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) whether the Government has received any proposal to set up CGHS dispensary in Haryana and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (SHRI ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY)

- (a): The number of Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) Dispensaries functioning in the country State/UT - wise is shown at Annexure.
- (b): The  criteria  fixed  for  setting  up  a  Central  Government  Health Scheme  (CGHS) dispensary in a particular area are as under: -
- (i) In an existing CGHS city : - For opening of a new Allopathic CGHS dispensary in an existing  CGHS  city,  there  has  to  be  a  minimum  of  2000  Card  holders  (servin employees of Central Government and C entral Civil pensioners).
- (ii) Extension of CGHS to a new City: -For extension of CGHS to a new city, there has to be a minimum of 6,000 Card holders.
- (c): At present there is no such proposal.
- (d): Yes. Proposals  for  opening  of  new  CGHS  Dispensary  at  Sonepat,  Rewari,  Ambala, Rohtak, Jhajjar and Faridabad (Second Wellness Centre) have been received.

| SI. No.   | State /UT        | City                    | Allopathic   | Ayurvedic   | Homeopathic   | Unaani   | Sidha   | Yoga   |
|-----------|------------------|-------------------------|--------------|-------------|---------------|----------|---------|--------|
| 1         | Assam            | Guwahati                | 5            | 0           | 1             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| 2         | Andhra Pradesh   | Visakhapatnam           | 1            | 0           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| 3         | Bihar            | Patna                   | 5            | 1           | 1             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| 4         | Chhattisgarh     | Raipur                  | 1            | 0           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| 5         | Delhi            | Delhi                   | 86           | 12          | 13            | 5        | 1       | 4      |
| 6         | Goa              | Panaji                  | 1            | 0           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
|           |                  | Ahmedabad               | 8            | 1           | 1             | 1        | 0       | 0      |
| 7         | Gujarat          | Gandhinagar             | 1            | 0           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
|           |                  | Faridabad               | 1            | 0           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| 8         | Haryana          | Gurgaon                 | 2            | 1           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| 9         | Himachal Pradesh | Shimla                  | 1            | 0           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| 10        | Jammu & Kashmir  | Jammu                   | 2            | 0           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| 11        | Jharkhand        | Ranchi                  | 3            | 0           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| 12        | Karnataka        | Bengaluru               | 10           | 2           | 1             | 1        | 0       | 0      |
| 13        | Kerala           | Thiruvananthapura m     | 3            | 1           | 1             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
|           |                  | Bhopal                  | 2            | 0           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| 14        | Madhya Pradesh   | Jabalpur                | 5            | 0           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| 15        | Maharashtra      | Indore Mumbai Nagpur    | 1 26         | 0 2         | 0 3           | 0 0      | 0 0     | 0 0    |
|           |                  |                         | 11           | 2           | 1             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| 16.       | Manipur          | Pune Imphal             | 9            | 1 0         | 2             | 0 0      | 0 0     | 0 0    |
| 17        |                  |                         | 1            |             | 0             |          |         | 0      |
|           | Meghalaya        | Shillong                | 2            | 0           | 0             | 0        | 0       |        |
| 18        | Mizoram          | Aizawl                  | 1            | 0           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| 19        | Nagaland         | Kohima                  | 1            | 0           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| 20        | Odisha           | Bhu vaneshwar           | 3            | 1           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| 21        | Puducherry       | Puducherry              | 1            | 0           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| 22        | Rajasthan        | Jaipur                  | 7            | 1           | 1             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| 23        | Sikkim           | Gangtok                 | 1            | 0           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| 24        | Tamil Nadu       | Chennai                 | 14           | 1           | 1             | 0        | 2       | 0      |
| 25        | Telangana        | Hyderabad               | 13           | 2           | 2             | 2        | 0       | 0      |
| 26        | Tripura          | Agartala                | 1            | 0           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| 27        | Uttrakhand       | Dehradun                | 2            | 0           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| 28        | Uttar            |                         |              |             | 1             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
|           | Pradesh          | Allahabad               | 7            | 1           |               | 0        | 0       | 0      |
|           |                  | Ghaziabad Greater Noida | 1 1          | 0 0         | 0 0           | 0        | 0       | 0      |
|           |                  | Indirapuram             | 1            | 0           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
|           |                  | Kanpur                  | 9            | 1           | 2             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
|           |                  | Lucknow                 | 9            | 1           | 1             | 1        | 0       | 0      |
|           |                  | Noida                   | 2            | 0           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
|           |                  | Meerut                  | 6            | 1           | 1             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
|           |                  | Sahibabad               | 1            | 0           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| 29        | West Bengal      |                         | 18           |             |               |          |         |        |
| 30        |                  | Kolkata                 |              | 1           | 2             | 1        | 0       | 0      |
|           | Chandigarh (UT)  | Chandigarh              | 1            | 0           | 0             | 0        | 0       | 0      |
| Total     | Total            | Total                   | 287          | 33          | 35            | 10       | 3       | 4      |