| Id |
Subject |
Object |
Predicate |
Lexical cue |
| T23 |
0-107 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Primary Health Care (PHC) has always been considered a foundation of stronger and efficient health systems. |
| T24 |
108-317 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The efforts to strengthen health services, based upon stronger PHC in India started when the ‘Health Survey and Development Committee’ was established in 1943 under the chairpersonship of Sir Joseph Bhore [5]. |
| T25 |
318-534 |
Sentence |
denotes |
India started setting up primary health centres (PHCs) in 1952, when the first few PHCs were established in Najafgarh (Delhi), Singur (West Bengal) and Poonammalle (Tamilnadu) under Community Development Program [6]. |
| T26 |
535-651 |
Sentence |
denotes |
This was part of establishing a three-tier healthcare system in the country, which has evolved since then [2, 7, 8]. |
| T27 |
652-882 |
Sentence |
denotes |
India started efforts to build health system around the same time when National Health Services (NHS) in United Kingdom was set up and the constitution of World Health Organization (WHO) came into force, both in year 1948 [9, 10]. |
| T28 |
883-1076 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The successive governments continued to expand the network of PHCs, which received a major boost through various committees, set up nearly one to three in every decade for first 4 decades [11]. |
| T29 |
1077-1176 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The efforts to strengthen PHC system in rural India have been made over the years [1, 3, 4, 12–20]. |
| T30 |
1177-1282 |
Sentence |
denotes |
With these initiatives, by mid Sept 2019, country had an extensive network of 158,417 Health Sub Centres: |
| T31 |
1283-1444 |
Sentence |
denotes |
25,743 Primary Health Centres in rural areas; 5,624 Urban PHCs; 764 district hospitals; 539 medical colleges and hospitals and 1,741 mobile medical units [7, 8]. |
| T32 |
1445-1570 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The annual admission capacity in medical colleges was 80,000 for graduate medical seats and 41,000 for post graduate courses. |
