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The Insurance Times

Availability of health centres as per the strength of population in
rural areas

Subcentre (SC)
This is the first level health contact centre for rural people. There is one subcentre for
every 5000 population.( 3000-Hilly areas)

Primary health Care Centre(PHC)
A Primary Health centre acts as a referral centre for 6 subcentre. There is one PHC
for every 30000 population.( 20000-Hilly areas) These provide outpatient services
and majority have 4 to 6 inpatient beds

Community Health Centre (CHC)
Community Health Centreis the 1st referral unit for 4 PHC. According to norms
every CHC(for 1 lakh population) should have 30 beds, 1 OT, X ray machine, labour
room staffed by 4 specialists

Rural Hospitals
These include subdistrict hospitals called as Sub-divisional /Taluk/Speciality hospitals

Speciality and teaching hospitals which are roughly 300 in India are situate in major
cities.

Some facts about private sector providers

 India is a very large and heterogeneous private sector

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