XI Five Year Plan 2007-2012 - Public Health & Family Welfare ...

20. Supply of Essential Drugs for PHCs and CHC
The State provides a budget of Rs. 5,000/- per sub center, 1,00,000/- per PHC and
2,00,000/- per CHC per annum for procurement of drugs. To enhance the availability
of all essential drugs and to ensure that all poor patients are provided free drugs, a
need has been appreciated for augmenting this budget. An additional allocation of
Rs. 10000/- per sub centre, Rs. 2 Lakhs per PHC and Rs. 4 Lakhs per CHC has
been proposed.
21. Drug Stores
The State has drug stores at 28 districts out of the total 48 districts. The State has
decided to introduce a centralized procurement and distribution system based on the
Tamil Nadu Drug Corporation. In order to have smooth distribution and storage of
drugs in all the districts it is proposed to construct drug stores at remaining 20
districts. Cost of construction a drug store will be Rs. 40 Lakhs. The construction of
the new drug stores will be undertaken in the year 2007-08.
22. Facility Survey of CHCs / PHCs
It is proposed to undertake a facility survey of all 48 district hospitals, 54 civil
hospitals, 127 CEmONC and 500 BEmONC institutions and non-BEmONC PHCs to
identify gaps and infrastructure, repair / renovation requirements, gaps in human
resource and equipments.
23. Research and Evaluation
Role of operations research needs to be optimized for improving programme
performance as well as for improving the quality of programme implementation and
monitoring. The State would establish an Operations Research Cell, which will
coordinate all operational researches and maintain a catalogued documentation. This
cell would be appropriately manned with requisite professionals having expertise in
public and related disciplines including research methodology. The State would also
seek to strengthen monitoring and evaluation system so that effective HMIS is put in
place. In addition, the state proposes to develop and document best practices so that
the programme implementers can benchmark their performances. The state
Government would also specifically include E-governance and telemedicine in its
operations research agenda. The detailed work plan would be developed to address
these initiatives.