National Rural Health Mission - Amravati

INNOVATIVE SCHEMES
CO‐ORDINATION CELL AT DISTRICT HOSPITAL :‐
Peripheral health institutions (SCs, PHCs, CHCs, etc.) have to refer patients to District Hospitals in
emergency. District Hospitals have different sections for registration, laboratory checkup, X‐ray,
medicines, blood bank, etc. Tribal patients do not have orientation of hospital and also cannot
understand the language and there is delay in getting all the formalities done. Because of such
environment, tribal patients are not willing to stay in hospital and many of the times insist for
discharge even if the condition of patient is critical. To avoid this, one Coordination cell for patients
referred from PHCs/CHCs in district will be established in each of 6 tribal district hospitals of state.
The coordination cell will be established in District Hospital.
Geographical distribution
Districts Hospitals included are : Thane, Nashik, Nandurbar, Amarawati, Gondia and Gadchiroli.
Structure of Coordination cell
The cell will be structured as follows:
1. There will be one Supervisor and 4 Coordinators in the Cell.
2. Supervisor should be at least 12 th standard pass and Coordinators should be at least 10 th
pass.
3. Two coordinators will be males and two will be females. This can be changed as per need by
districts.
4. Coordinator and Supervisor must be from tribal community and able to speak local tribal
language prevalent in district or in patients coming to DH.
5. One desk should be given to Cell in ODD and Casualty of the hospital at prominent place
with signboard.
Appointment of Coordination cell staff
Coordination cell staff will be appointed by Selection committee constituted under Chairmanship of
Chairman EC RKS. Selection should be by advertisement in newspaper. It is important that the
Supervisor and Coordinators should be from tribal community and should understand tribal
language and should be good in communication skills.
Functions of Coordination Cell
One person should be available either in OPD or Casualty from coordination cell to help the serious
tribal patients. Following will be the functions of Tribal cell :
• Informing all the Sub‐Centers, PHCs and Hospitals about tribal cell and telephone and mobile
numbers of the Cell Staff.
• Receiving the serious / referred patients from health facilities in tribal areas, helping them in
formalities for check‐up, admission and investigations.
• Requesting the Medical Officers or specialists to attend to patients if required
• Admitting the patient in hospital