Writeup AP 2011-12 - Punjab State Planning Board

11.5 MEDICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH
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Outlay – Rs. 31490.85 lac
11.5.1 The state government is committed to provide preventive, promotive and
curative health services to the people of the State. Major thrust of the 11 th Five Year Plan is
to link all the District Hospitals, Sub-divisional hospitals and block level Community Health
Centres with PGIMER, Chandigarh and with Government Medical Colleges through tele-
medicine facility. In order to combat drug abuse in the State, “Drug De-addiction Centres”
in the existing hospitals and “State Level Drug Dependence Treatment Centre” on the lines
of National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre would be established in Government
Medical College, Amritsar. The state government has decided to establish four new faculties
and four study centres in Baba Farid University of Health Sciences. Emphasis is on
upgradation of infrastructure in State Medical/Dental Colleges.
11.5.2 Besides, thrust is on consolidation, upgradation and expansion of existing
medical institutions in the State in the fields of Allopathy, Ayurveda and Homoeopathy by
removing the existing deficiencies in the building, infrastructure, medicines, machinery and
equipment and providing basic minimum services in the health sector.
Primary Healthcare
11.5.3 Primary Healthcare services in the rural areas of the State are provided
through a net-work of medical institutions comprising of Sub-Centres (2858),
SHCs/Dispensaries (1322), PHCs (395) and CHCs (129). Out of 1322 SHCs/Rural
Dispensaries, 1187 Rural Dispensaries had been transferred to the Panchayati Raj Institutions
(Zila Parishads).
11.5.4 The various National and State Health Programmes, which have been
launched to provide Primary Healthcare include a crusade against Malaria, Tuberculosis,
Blindness, Leprosy and AIDS. The Family Welfare and Immunization Programmes have had
major success in the State.
Secondary Level Healthcare System
11.5.5 While the CHCs established in rural areas serve as the first level of referral
services and the hospitals at Sub-divisional level and District Hospitals serve as institutions
of secondary level of healthcare and give support to the services being provided in the