At present 13136 CCs are on board & the number is increasing gradually. From 2009 – 2015, 460.88 million visits were made to CCs for services of which 9.071 million emergency & complicated cases were referred to higher facilities for proper management. Among the service seekers about 80% are women and children. On average 9.5-10 million visits are in CCs per month & 38 visits per day per CC.
CC is the lowest tier health facility for quality PHC. It is one stop service outlet for Health, Family Planning & nutrition. It is a preventive biased centre that provides mainly health education & health promotional services. All the CCs are outreach sites for routine Immunization & NID. It addition it provides limited curative care (treatment of minor ailments), screening of NCD-Hypertension, Diabetes, identifying emergency & complicated cases with referral to higher facilities. In a substantial number of CCs, normal delivery is being conducted subjected to the availability of skilled manpower (CSBA), proactive CG, committed local health management & where from patients can be referred within a short time or necessary support can be provided from UHC.
- Status of important services of CC from 2009-March, 2016:
Sl # | Service | # of Visit/ # of patients | Remarks |
1 | PHC (Health, FP & Nutrition) | 483.20 million visits | On average 39 visits/CC/day |
2 | Referred from CC | 11 million emergency & complicated patients | Most of the cases have been referred to UHC |
3 | Normal Delivery (ND) | 28160 | Normal Delivery is going on in 1008 CC & is increasing |
4 | Supply of Medicine | Medicine worth Tk. 8270.50 million | Medicine supplied by EDCL & CMSD |