Budget Estimates for 2008-09 - National Portal of India

has been placed and the staff nurses are being engaged to strengthen the CHCs as per
IPHS along with generic medicines for common ailments and their availability will be on
priority in CHCs/ Poly Clinic-45/ dispensaries of thickly populated area.
There is no PHC in Chandigarh at present. However the same is being
planned to upgrade the Rural Health Centre in village Maloya to PHC as per IPHS.
There are 13 sub-centres in U.T., Chandigarh. All sub-centres have been
given untied fund of Rs.10,000/- recoupable annually. The account of which is jointly
handled by the ANM and the Sarpanch to be used for the miscellaneous works/ material
as per guidelines. Out of these 13 Sub-Centres, 7 number of Sub-Centres are being relocated
on the basis of the Urban Slum/ Colonies wherein the re-habilitation has been
done and 3 new Sub-Centres had been planned out of which one has been made
operational during the year 2007-08.
The Janani Suraksha Yojna has been implemented in U.T., Chandigarh.
All the three hospitals namely PGI, GMSH-32, GMSH-16 and CHCs Sector-22,
Manimajra have been allocated the funds under JSY. The procedure for BPL
certification for the payment of JSY has been simplified further to release the money
under the scheme more effectively.
The effective mechanism has been made for providing the benefits for
which extensive IEC activity has been done effectively w.e.f.July 2007 and 1125
number of cases have been provided the benefit of cash assistance and Rs.1.5 Lakh
was budgeted however Rs.50000/- was kept for Home deliveries keeping in view the
judgment of Supreme Court for providing the assistance judiciously. However the data
of Home Delivery is not available. The State Initiative as to Cash Assistance for the
anganwari worker from the registration of the pregnancy till delivery at the rate of
Rs.300/- along with referral transportation money, availability of free drug kit at the time
of delivery etc. has kept the target of 100% institutional delivery in U.T., Chandigarh.
The 2 CHCs are being made fully operationalized to argument to existing
facility as to institutional delivery to reduce the work load in PGIMER/ GMCH-32/
GMSH-16 Hospitals. The manpower Medical/ Paramedical has been sought over and
above the sanctioned manpower under IPHS keeping in view the work load for these
CHC working for 24 x 7.
The IEC will be taken up to make the facility used by the vulnerable
section and the referral is to be taken by the anganwari worker/ ANMs in these CHCs.
The blood storage facility will be added in the year 2008-09, however the
same will be used from the existing blood banks till then.
The 7 sub-centres are to be relocated as they have been developed into
Civil Dispensaries and 3 new sub-centres targeted in the year 2007-08 out of which one
has been established thereby 9 new sub-centres are being established in the areas on
the basis of priority of the facility in under served areas those requiring high demand.
The Union Territory plans to put the terms of reference as to assess the
beneficiaries under JSY in their survey to be conducted in the year 2008-09 and
extensive IEC activity to be done for improving implementation of JSY.
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