Key Points
The government plans to evaluate the health and wellness centres under its flagship health insurance scheme the Ayushman Bharat to assess the effectiveness of the policy instrument for ensuring the comprehensive primary health care to the citizens...
Besides, the evaluation will also measure the programme's performance against the inputs and outputs and assess the processes involved in the effective service delivery by the health and wellness centres set under the scheme...
The Development, Monitoring and Evaluation Office, an attached office of NITI Aayog, has invited bids for technical consultants to undertake evaluation of the programme...
The study will assess the availability of requisite infrastructure, manpower, logistics and teleconsultation besides evaluating the availability of state-level plans for conversion, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of the health and wellness centres, the DMEO said in the request for proposal document floated to invite proposals...
In February 2018, the government had announced the creation of 1,50,000 health and wellness centres (HWCs) by transforming the existing sub centres and primary health centres to deliver comprehensive primary health care (CPHC)..
