Assessment of IPHS standard in sub-centre for providing maternal and child health services at Bareilly District of Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

A sub centre is the most peripheral point of contact of the public health system with the population at large, so most of our demographics depend on the efficient functionality of these centres. The study facilities were assessed in terms of availability of infrastructure, logistics, human resources and find out the disparity in the facilities existing at Sub Centre in comparison to IPHS norms. A community-based cross- sectional study was conducted in Bhojipura block, rural field practice area of department of Community Medicine, Shri Ram Murti Samarak Institute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly India. The study was conducted from May 2014 to Sept 2014. All 24 Sub-centres catering to 100 villages of Bhojipura block covered in the study. All the assessed sub-centre’s provided Ante-natal care (ANC), Child care including immunization (as per given government schedule), Family Planning and contraception & facilities under Janani Suraksha Yojna (JSY), whereas only 78.9% provided Intra-Natal Care (INC) and 63.1% of them provided Post-Natal Care (PNC).