PPP in primary healthcare brings encouraging results in Rajasthan
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New Delhi/Jaipur: A glucometer that scans retina, a mammogram that allows diagnoses of breast cancer without touching, a medicine vending machine and low-cost diabetes testing strips are some of the medical innovations changing the face of primary health care system in Rajasthan.
These apart, cleanliness, availability of staff and medicines and behavioural change among doctors and medical staff has resulted in more patients preferring to go for treatment at several primary health centres (PHCs) and sub centres (SCs) in 16 blocks across 12 districts.
SCALE Rajasthan, a government initiative to rope in private partners to supervise administration at some of its "worst-performing" health centres in remote areas, has seen the number of patients being treated rising two fold in the last six months.
Of the total 2,080 PHCs, the government had, on a pilot basis, handed over the supervision and administration of 30 PHCs and 153 sub-centres to Wadhwani Initiative for Sustainable Healthcare (WISH) which took over the charge around six months ago.
These apart, cleanliness, availability of staff and medicines and behavioural change among doctors and medical staff has resulted in more patients preferring to go for treatment at several primary health centres (PHCs) and sub centres (SCs) in 16 blocks across 12 districts.
SCALE Rajasthan, a government initiative to rope in private partners to supervise administration at some of its "worst-performing" health centres in remote areas, has seen the number of patients being treated rising two fold in the last six months.
Of the total 2,080 PHCs, the government had, on a pilot basis, handed over the supervision and administration of 30 PHCs and 153 sub-centres to Wadhwani Initiative for Sustainable Healthcare (WISH) which took over the charge around six months ago.
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