Hospitals as health centres.
As a signatory to the Alma-Ata Declaration in 1978, the Government of India is committed to taking steps to provide 'Health for All' to its citizens by 2000 AD. We have agreed to adopt the primary health care approach, for achieving the goal of HFA. In this context, it is very essential to redefine the role of hospital. It will not be possible to achieve the goal-HFA unless, hospitals start functioning as health centres. This paper discusses in details how a hospital can function as health centre.
Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Topiwala National Medical College, Bombay.
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