There were plans to develop 12 existing dispensaries into urban primary health centres and two hospitals into urban community health centres. Picture by Ashwinee Pati Bhubaneswar, July 3: The plan to set up urban health centres under the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM), which were to provide quality health care service to the people in the city, still remains a non-starter. The government had launched the ambitious National Urban Health Mission in 2013 to provide quality health care services to the urban population. The authorities had put up a board last year that says that it is an urban primary health centre. The health centres should also have drug stores and blood-testing facilities along with pathology services, but none of these services were present in any of these health centres.

Source: The Telegraph July 03, 2016 22:07 UTC