NEW DELHI: The Health Ministry has said it had taken several steps for strengthening health care facilities by integrating department of ayurveda, yoga & naturopathy, unani, siddha and homoeopathy (AYUSH) systems in national health care delivery systems.
The integration is facilitated by appointing or co-locating AYUSH doctors and supporting staff and creating infrastructure according to local needs, a statement by the ministry said.
There were 640 districts, 6431 blocks and 638588 villages incorporating 605 District Hospitals (DHs), 4535 Community Health Centers (CHCs) and 23673 Primary Health Centers (PHCs) till March 2011.
Out of these, AYUSH facilities had been co-located with 416 District Hospitals, 2942 Community Health Centers and 9559 Primary Health Centers during 2011. About 68.76 percent District hospitals had been co-located with AYUSH facilities till 2011, the ministry said in the statement.
All the District hospitals existing in the states and union territories of Goa, Haryana, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Lakshadweep and Puducherry had been co-located with AYUSH facilities, whereas, the states having more than 50 percent of the District hospitals co-located with AYUSH facilities were Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttarakhand, the statement added.
There had been no co-location of AYUSH facilities in the Districts hospitals of the remaining 12 states and union territories, the ministry said.
Nearly 65 percent Community Health Centers had been co-located with AYUSH facilities till 2011.
All the CHCs existing in states and union territories of Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Nagaland, Orissa, Manipur, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Lakshadweep and Puducherry had been co-located with AYUSH facilities, it said.
The ministry also said the states having more than 50 per cent of the CHCs co-located with AYUSH facilities were Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Punjab, Tripura and West Bengal.
The states having more than 25 percent but less than 50 percent of the CHCs co-located with AYUSH facilities were Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan. The states having less than 25 percent CHCs co-located with AYUSH facilities were Madhya Pradesh only. No co-location of AYUSH facilities had been observed in CHCs in the remaining 8 states and union territories.
About 40.4 percent of Primary Health Centers had been co-located with AYUSH facilities till 2011. All the PHC existing in the Union Territory of D&N Haveli, Daman & Diu and Puducherry, Jammu and Kashmir, A&N Islands, and Lakshadweep have been co-located.
The states and UTs having more than 50 percent of the PHCs co-located with AYUSH facilities were Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Manipur, Orissa, Rajasthan, Tamilnadu and Tripura.
States having more than 25 per cent but less than 50 per cent of the PHCs co-located with AYUSH facilities, were Karnataka, Meghalaya West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab.
The states and union territories having less than 25 percent of the Primary Health Centers co-located with AYUSH facilities were Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the Health ministry said.
-PTI
Thank You For Your Vote!
Sorry You have Already Voted!
