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MEDICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES
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PRIMARY HEALTH CENTRES
Primary Health Centres.- The general aim of health programme is to expand existing health services, to bring them increasingly within the reach of all the people, and to promote a progressive improvement in the level of national health. For rendering integrated health services in the development blocks, one primary health centre with three sub-centres was provided for each development block with a population of about 60,000 to 66,000. The primary health centre is put in the charge of a Medical Officer who carries on his duties with the help of a Health visitor and a Sanitary Inspector. He is held responsible for providing both curative and preventive services to the people in the block. He works under the technical and administrative control of the District Health Officer. In 1960, there were seven primary health centres at Nandura, Shegaon, Jalgaon, Kinhola, Janefal, Lakhanwada and Sangrampur. This number rose to eleven in the year 1963-64. In 1967 there were 13 primary health centres in the district.
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