Apart from IPHS, the RHS report also provides information on the status of infrastructure facilities available at these centres. Each type of centre is supposed to have certain facilities. For example, the SCs, which are located in some of the remotest parts of the country, are expected to just have regular water and electricity supply; each SC is expected to have a male and a female health worker. PHCs, the first contact points between patients and a doctor, are expected to have operation theatres (OTs), referral transport and function 24x7 amongst other facilities. The CHCs, which are the largest amongst the three, are expected to have facilities like X-Ray machines, a functional laboratories and at least 30 beds amongst other facilities.

The following Chart 2A shows the number of centres that are required in each state, the number of centres that are present and the number of centres that have a certain infrastructure facility. Please use the dropdown menu on the top to select the type of centre and the type of facility to access the full list of facilities that should be present at each level. The list for facilities would change based on the type of centre selected. For example, the current view shows that Uttar Pradesh has the maximum number of SCs in India as of 2021 and out of 20,788 of them 19,088 (91.9 per cent) centres have regular water supply. Still, the state has a shortage of 14,695 centres.

Workforce forms a crucial part of the infrastructure of any organisation and this is even truer in the case of healthcare. Chart 2B shows the number of doctors and nurses in position across states in rural India. Please use the dropdown menu on the top to select the type of centre and the manpower type to further filter the chart as needed. The current view shows that as of 2021, Uttar Pradesh had 60.77 per cent of doctors and nurses that its rural parts needed. Please hover on the bars to get an exact count of the ‘in position’ and ‘shortage’ values.

In order to better understand one of the States in detail, Chart 3 shows three things -  
- complete list of infrastructure facilities that should be present at each of the levels,
- the no. of SCs, PHCs, CHCs that are Required, Present, the no. of Centres that have a certain facility,
- the no. of Doctors and Nurses that are Required and In Position at those levels.

The Chart currently shows the data for the State of Uttar Pradesh as of 2021. Please use the dropdown menu on the top to change the State or the Year.

Since the launch of NRHM in 2005, the number of healthcare centres as well as the facilities at them has improved considerably. Likewise, the number of doctors and nurses too has increased. However, it is important to know whether these numbers have been able to keep up with the increasing requirements. The following two charts (4A and 4B) show the infrastructure and manpower changes from 2017 till 2021. Chart 4A currently shows the number of SCs, PHCs and CHCs that are required, present and the ones that are functioning as per IPHS in Uttar Pradesh. It can be seen that over the years, the number of SCs has increased slightly but has not been able to keep up with the increasing requirement. As for the SCs functioning as per IPHS, none of the centres qualify. (For 2021, “Functioning as per IPHS” field was removed from the data, hence the chart is left blank). Please use the dropdown menu on the top to change the state or any other facility (like with regular water supply, with X-Ray machine, etc). Please note that since the ‘facility’ dropdown is an exhaustive list of facilities, not all the facilities would be available at all the levels. For example, since SCs are the smallest units they are not supposed to have OTs or X-Ray machines. Similarly, since CHCs are the largest units, data for the number of them having facilities like regular water/ electricity supply is not recorded as all of them already have it.