| Primary Health Centre | |
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| Ministry of Health and Family Welfare | |
 An Urban Primary Health Center, underNational Health Mission inKerala |
Primary Health Centre (PHCs), sometimes referred to aspublic health centres,[1][2] are state-owned rural and urban health care facilities in India.[3][4] They are essentially single-physician clinics usually with facilities for minor surgeries. They are part of the government-funded publichealth system in India and are the most basic units of this system. As on 31 March 2019 there are 30,045 PHCs in India in which 24,855 are located in rural areas and 5,190 are in urban areas.[5] The idea of creating PHCs in India was set forward byBhore committee in 1946.
Primary Health Centre programmes are listed below:
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| Medicine | |||
| Diseases | |||
| Government | |||
| Agencies and institutes |
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| Epidemics | |||
| Statistics | |||
| Studies | |||
| Other issues | |||
| Psychiatric hospitals and other in-patient units |
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| Non-governmental organizations | |
| Mental health professional associations |
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| Mental healthjournals | |
| Key people | |
| Controversy & criticism | |
