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Gap Assessment of District Hospitals in Chhattisgarh


Strengthening district hospitals in India serves multiple purposes, primarily focusing on enhancing healthcare accessibility, providing quality medical services closer to communities, reducing the burden on higher-tier healthcare facilities, improving healthcare outcomes, addressing public health challenges, and ensuring a more comprehensive healthcare delivery system at the grassroots level. Towards this objective, a comprehensive assessment of the District Hospitals in the state is a priority for the partnership between HSTP and the Government of Chhattisgarh in enhancing its healthcare landscape. HSTP is working closely with the Department of Health and Family Welfare. The aim is to align them to the Indian Public Health Standards (IPHS) 2022 norms by facilitating evidence-based decision-making processes to inform and guide context-specific policy and program implementation. This adherence aims to ensure standardized service quality, efficient resource allocation, and transparency in healthcare delivery.

This gap assessment covers various critical elements, including the assessment of infrastructure, equipment, human resources, and the availability of essential drugs and diagnostics across a range of services and departments in district hospitals. This district hospital assessment is comprehensive in identifying critical gaps in service provisions and serving as the foundation for state planning based on the needs uncovered, thereby enabling the formulation of budgetary requirements to ensure the effective allocation of necessary resources.


To maintain transparency and coordination, data collection for the assessment is supported by hospital managers of the district hospitals. Recently, at a state-level capacity building programme, all hospital managers have received training to know and understand the IPHS norms and the inputs in the IPHS gap assessment checklist. 

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