Lok Sabha Question No. 581 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-12-09
Subject: Primary Health Centres
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Ashok Kumar Rawat

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 581 TO BE ANSWERED ON 9 th  December, 2022

## PRIMARY HEALTH CENTRES

## †581. SHRI ASHOK KUMAR RAWAT:

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

- a)    the details of the number of Primary Health Centres (PHCs) opened in rural areas of the country along with the number of such Centres functional, State/UT/location-wise;
- b) whether the Government is aware of the fact regarding acute shortage of medicines in the said PHCs and if so, the details thereof along with the reasons therefor; and
- c) the details of the necessary steps taken by the Government towards improving the situation and ensuring smooth functioning of the such PHCs across the country?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (DR. BHARATI PRAVIN PAWAR)

(a): RHS  2020-21  report  provides  data  on  number  of  functional  PHCs  in  rural  area (state/UT wise). The details of which are placed at annexure-I .

(b) & (c): Under Ayushman Bharat initiative- existing Sub centres and PHCs are to be transformed to  Health  &  Wellness  centres  to  provide  12  packages  of  comprehensive  primary  health  care services.  To  ensure  the  provisions  of  Comprehensive  Primary  Health  Care  services,  under  free drugs  services  initiative  171  essential  medicine  are  provisioned  at  all  PHCs-Health  &  Wellness centres  free  of  cost  to  health  care  seekers.  States/UTs  have  flexibility  to  add  more  medicines. Therefore, Essential Medicines Lists vary from State to State. To ensure the provision of free drugs, GoI support the states/UTs through proposals sought by states in their PIPs.

Support under the Free Drugs Service Initiative (FDSI) under National Health Mission (NHM) is available for Procurement of drugs and  setting up of robust systems of procurement, Quality  Assurance,  Supply  chain  management  and  warehousing  etc.    IT  enabled  platform  i.e. DVDMS  (Drugs  &  Vaccine  Distribution  Management  System)  has  been  rolled  out  for monitoring the real status of procurement and availability of essential medicines through which state government monitor the availability of medicines at facilities.

## Annexure-I

|   Sr. No. | State/UT                            |   Number of PHC Functioning as per RHS 2020-21 in Rural areas |
|-----------|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|         1 | Andhra Pradesh                      |                                                          1142 |
|         2 | Arunachal Pradesh                   |                                                           122 |
|         3 | Assam                               |                                                           948 |
|         4 | Bihar                               |                                                          1932 |
|         5 | Chhattisgarh                        |                                                           769 |
|         6 | Goa                                 |                                                            23 |
|         7 | Gujarat                             |                                                          1477 |
|         8 | Haryana                             |                                                           384 |
|         9 | Himachal Pradesh                    |                                                           553 |
|        10 | Jharkhand                           |                                                           291 |
|        11 | Karnataka                           |                                                          2141 |
|        12 | Kerala                              |                                                           782 |
|        13 | Madhya Pradesh                      |                                                          1234 |
|        14 | Maharashtra                         |                                                          1839 |
|        15 | Manipur                             |                                                            86 |
|        16 | Meghalaya                           |                                                           121 |
|        17 | Mizoram                             |                                                            62 |
|        18 | Nagaland                            |                                                           131 |
|        19 | Odisha                              |                                                          1288 |
|        20 | Punjab                              |                                                           422 |
|        21 | Rajasthan                           |                                                          2130 |
|        22 | Sikkim                              |                                                            24 |
|        23 | Tamil Nadu                          |                                                          1422 |
|        24 | Telangana                           |                                                           636 |
|        25 | Tripura                             |                                                           108 |
|        26 | Uttarakhand                         |                                                           245 |
|        27 | Uttar Pradesh                       |                                                          2923 |
|        28 | West Bengal                         |                                                           915 |
|        29 | A&NIslands                          |                                                            22 |
|        30 | Chandigarh                          |                                                             0 |
|        31 | Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman &Diu |                                                            12 |
|        32 | Delhi                               |                                                             5 |
|        33 | Jammu &Kashmir                      |                                                           891 |
|        34 | Ladakh                              |                                                            32 |
|        35 | Lakshadweep                         |                                                             4 |
|        36 | Puducherry                          |                                                            24 |

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