State Health Centres

The State Health Society (External website that opens in a new window) plays a key role in the accomplishment of the goal set by the National Rural Health Mission (External website that opens in a new window). This society was launched by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (External website that opens in a new window) in 2005 to provide effective health care to the rural population throughout the country with special focus on 18 states with weak public health indicators. Some of these weaker States are Bihar, Rajasthan, Manipur, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.

Here are details about State health societies in a few States:

Kerala: The Kerala Health Research and Welfare Society (External website that opens in a new window) was formed in 1973 and registered as a Charitable Society under the Travancore Cochin Literary, Scientific and Charitable Societies Registration Act XII of 1955 (External website that opens in a new window). The main objective of the Society is to associate with the Government of Kerala (External website that opens in a new window) for rendering better facilities to the patients in government hospitals. This includes the construction of pay wards with the help of financial institutions and to take up specific construction works in the field of child and undertake any other works as directed by the government.
Bihar: The State Health Society (External website that opens in a new window) of Bihar is located in the city of Patna. It is responsible for implementing various schemes of the government such as the Anaemia Control Programme, Filaria Control, Leprosy Eradication and Routine Immunization Programme. The State Health Society of Bihar has a number of sub societies to promote health at the local level.
Himachal Pradesh: As part of sectoral reforms to undertake integration of resources and avoid overlapping, the State government merged all the six health societies in the State into the State Health and Family Welfare Society (External website that opens in a new window). The societies that were merged into State Health and Family Welfare Society were State AIDS Control Society, the Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP), the Society for Prevention of Blindness, the Leprosy Control Society, the State Tuberculosis Control Society and the Reproductive Child Health Society.
Rajasthan: Rajasthan State Health Society (External website that opens in a new window) serves in an additional managerial and technical capacity to the Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Rajasthan (External website that opens in a new window) for the implementation of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) (External website that opens in a new window) in the State. The area of operation of the society is the whole of the State and has its office in Jaipur.

A list of top medical colleges in India is given below:

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (External website that opens in a new window)
Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029
Ph: 91-11-26588500, 91-11-26588700, 91-11-26589900
Fax : 91-11-26588663, 91-11-26588641
Christian Medical College (External website that opens in a new window)
Vellore 632 004, Tamil Nadu, India
Ph: 91-416- 2222102, 2223603, 2222722, 2223977
Armed Forces Medical College (External website that opens in a new window)
Pune 41104
Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (External website that opens in a new window)
Add: Dhanvantri Nagar, Gorimedu, Pondicherry - 605 006, India
Telephone: (0413) 2272380 - 90 (11 lines)
Fax : (0413) 2272067 (Director), 2272066(Dean), 2272735(M.S.)
E-mail : director@jipmer.edu
Lady Hardinge Medical College (External website that opens in a new window)
Bhagat Singh Road, Pin – 110001, New Delhi
Phone: 23343984
Maulana Azad Medical College (External website that opens in a new window)
Bahadur Shah Jafar Marg, New Delhi - 110002
Phone: (011) 23239271/ 72/ 73/ 74/ 23231478
E-mail: deanmamc@vsnl.net
Grant Medical College (External website that opens in a new window)
B25 (ESIS Hospital Quarters), Mulund (W), Mumbai-400080
Phone: 022-25680861
St John's Medical College (External website that opens in a new window)
Sarjapur Road, Bangalore - 560 034
Ph: 080-22065000
Fax: 080-25530070
e-mail: sjmch@vsnl.com, stjohns@blr.vsnl.net.in
Bangalore Medical College Fort, Bangalore – 560 002
Ph: 080-26704342
Fax: 080-26704342
e-mail: bmc-bng@vsnl.net
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (External website that opens in a new window)
Sector-12, Chandigarh - 160 012
Phone: EPBAX: 0091-172-2747585
Fax: 0091-172-2744401, 2745078
Email: pgimer@chd.nic.in
Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (External website that opens in a new window)
Lucknow 226014
Phone: 2668004-8

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District Health Centres

At district level, health administration consists of a number of officers and doctors who on an average handle 10-15 hospitals, 30-60 primary health centres and 300-400 sub centres. The entire system is a complex arrangement, which results in a number of vertical channels of information and multiplicity of agencies. Every district also has a civil hospital to cater to the health needs of the people of that district. Here is a list of district health centres in a few states.

Source: National Portal Content Management Team, Reviewed on:27-01-2010

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