Sub centres provide basic promotive, preventive and curative health care. In order to ensure the quality of service and to monitor the functioning of the sub centres, a set of standards have been prescribed. These constitute the assured services of the subcentres.

• Maternal health
  • Antenatal care
    • Early registration of pregnancy
    • Adequate antenatal checkups
    • Iron and folic acid supplementation
    • Tetanus toxoid injection – 2 doses – 1 month apart
    • Identification of high risk cases and prompt referral
    • Educate the women about safe delivery practices and motivate them to opt for instituitional delivery
  • Intranatal care
    • Safe delivery services
    • Provision of skilled birth attendants
  • Postnatal care
    • Postnatal visits to the mothers house on 2nd and 7th day
    • Start breast feeding within 30 minutes following delivery
    • Cash assistance by Janani Suraksha Yojna scheme
    • Educate the mother about diet, hygiene, contraception
• Family planning and counselling
  • Motivate the public to adopt family planning measures
  • Supply of condoms and oral pills
  • Facility for insertion of IUCD’s (Intra Uterine Contraceptive Device)
  • Follow up for people undergoing vasectomy and tubectomy
• Adolescent healthcare – education, counselling and referral
• Safe abortion services – counselling and referral
• Water quality monitoring
• Promotion of sanitation
• Field visits by health workers
• Community needs assessment
• Treatment for common minor diseases
• Training of ASHA’s and Traditional birth attendants
• Coordination of work of ASHA’s and anganwadi workers
• Implementation of national health programs
  • National AIDS control programme
  • National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme
  • National Leprosy Eradication Programme
  • Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme
  • Non communicable Disease and cancer control program
  • National Blindness Control Programme
  • Integrated Disease Surveillance Program
  • Promotion of medicinal herbs
  • Record of vital events

1. Objectives of antenatal care
2. Health Sector Planning
3. Elements of primary health care
4. Levels of healthcare