Primary Health Centre
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The Primary Health Centre (PHC) is the basic structural and functional unit of the public health services in developing countries. PHCs were established to provide accessible, affordable and available primary health care to people, in accordance with the Alma Ata Declaration, 1972 by the member nations of WHO.
In South Asia PHCs are the basic first line units providing primary health care. PHCs serve nearly 30000 population in India. Each PHC has five or six sub-centres staffed by health workers for outreach services such as immunisation, basic curative care services and maternal and child health services. PHCs generally consist of one or more doctors , a pharmacist, staff nurse and other para-medical support staff. GOBI-FFF is a PHC approach. In India phc basic part of health care. medical officer must be mbbs degree holder, and he controls overall functions of phc in addition to diagnostic and curative services. primary field staff is asha or village health nurse depending upon the state. they maintained direct contact to the beneficiary people and they bring the patients to phc.
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