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Characteristics of District Hospital - fdaforum - 10-11-2014

District Hospital should be in a position to provide all basic speciality services and should aim to develop super-specialty services gradually. District Hospital also needs to be ready for epidemic and disaster management all the times. In addition, it should provide facilities for skill based trainings for different levels of health care workers.

Essential Services (Minimum Assured Services) :
The services include OPD, indoor,Emergency Service,Newborn Care, Psychiatric services, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation services, Accident and Trauma
Services, Dialysis services and Anti-retroviral therapy,Special Newborn Care Units (SNCU)with specially trained staff, Patient Safety, infection control and Health Care workers Safety.

Desirable Services (which we should aspire to achieve) : It is desirable that every
District Hospital should have a Post Partum Unit with dedicated staff to provide Post natal services, all Family Planning Services, Safe Abortion services and immunization in an integrated manner. It is desirable that Super-specialties and related
diagnostic facilities be made available, in more than 300 bedded hospitals.

Indian Public Health Standards (IPHS): Guidelines for District Hospitals (2012)

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