Prepare a questioner of 15 questions on visit to a primary health centre .
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The Community Health Centre (CHC), the third tier of the network of rural health care
institutions, was required to act primarily as a referral centre (for the neighbouring PHCs, usually 4 in
number) for the patients requiring specialised health care services. The objective of having a referral
centre for the primary health care institutions was two-fold; to make modern health care services
accessible to the rural people and to ease the overcrowding in the district hospitals.The CHCs were
accordingly designed to be equipped with : four specialists in the areas of medicine, surgery,
paediatrics and gynaecology; 30 beds for indoor patients; operation theatre, labour room, X-ray
machine, pathological laboratory, standby generator , etc., along with the complementary medical and
para medical staff