Centre’s report highlights sorry state of Telangana’s PHCs

Hyderabad | Sunday | 13th October, 2019

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V Nilesh ByExpress News ServiceHYDERABAD: A recent Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) report highlights the sorry state of Primary Health Centres (PHC) in Telangana, in addition to the poor maintenance of their employee records by the Health Department. The MoHFW had recently released the ‘Health system Strengthening - Conditionality Report of the States 2018-19’. However, owing to performing well in five out of the seven parameters, the State could secure an extra amount of Rs 21 crore, taking its allowance to Rs 102 crore. As part of the RBF, the states are judged on the seven parameters and assigned scores between -14 to +14. Accordingly, a state might lose the entire funding as penalty or get more than the allotted amount..