Indian Public Health Standards for Sub-centres
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
- Antenatal care
- 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
