Since Financial Year
2015-16, Rajasthan had initiated a project in two districts,
Baran and Churu under Universal Health Coverage. Under this
Project, OPD and Diagnostic services are being provided through
weekly OPD in the evening by AYUSH Medical Officers along
with Lab Technicians from the same PHC. The basic purpose
was to increase the services available at sub centres. It
was implemented in 150 sub centres of two districts and up
to March, 2017, more than 27,511 patients were benefitted.
This similar project
has been up-scaled by Government of India in the form of “Health
and Wellness Centres”. The Government of India has mandated
that by 2022, all sub centres must be converted into Health
and Wellness Centres. They have also evolved the conceptof
“Community Health Officer”. Nurse / AYUSH doctors will be
trained for six months at prescribed centres, recognized by
IGNOU in order to work as Community Health Officers. These
Community Health Officers will then be posted at sub centres
and then regular services will be provided by them to the
nearby population.
in Financial Year 2017-18, 490 Sub
Centres (including 150 existing UHC Sub Centres) were selected
on following two basis :-
A. Delivery load
B. Connection with Adrash PHCs
AYUSH MOs were posted to run the selected sub centres. In
the year 2017-2018, more than 1.83 lac patients’ consultation
have been done and around 1 lac diagnostic tests have been
done. The training of first batch of 11 Community Health
Officers started in July, 2017 and placed at HWCs..
Planning for Financial Year
2018-19
Right now training
of 120 Community Health Officers is going on smoothly and
these officers will be available in July, 2018. From July,
2018, training of another 240 CHOs will start and in this
way by December, 2018, Rajasthan shall be having 371 trained
CHOs. In January, 2018, it is targeted to train 240 more CHOs
in order to increase the number of HWCs to 679 including 50
Urban PHCs. In the year 2018-19, it is proposed to make more
than 550 centres functional. 03 Blocks namely;Sam (Jaisalmer),
Shahbad (Baran) and Rajgarh (Churu) shall be saturated in
this financial year.
The Branding of these
centres have been done and these centres in Rajasthan will
be known as Swasthya Kalyan Kendra (LokLF; dY;k.k dsUnz).
