Healthcare Facilities in Bijnor

Bijnor is well facilitated with health care centres to serve the 115,381 population of the city. The department of medical education and research, Department of Health and Family welfare along with the government of Uttar Pradesh ensure quality health care services to the people of Bijnor. The health department provides first level health services through district hospitals with all medical facilities and 100 to 500 bedding facility. The second level is establishing community health centres at tehsil and block level and the last level is to provide facility at the interior rural ares. The rural or public health infrastructure in Uttar Pradesh sub centres, primary health centres, block primary health centres, district hospitals and community health centres aims to facilitate the people in rural cities and villages of the state with health services.

The various component wise accomplishments of the Health and Family Welfare department of the state are Saloni Yojna, Routine Immunization, Saubhagyawati Scheme, Family Planning, Asha Selection and Training Process, Construction Cell, Services given by Mobile Medical Units till January 2012, Quarterly JSY Physical/Financial Performance during FY 2010-11, IT Initiatives and School Health Programme. The School health program facilitates annual health check-ups in Bijnor schools.

The Ministry of Health and Family welfare division of the state holds responsibility to create the family planning awareness about the family welfare methods and plans among the people of Bijnor as the state marks 3.8 as its fertility rate, which is one of the highest rates in the country. Fertility rate is nothing but the average number of children born per women during her life time. The department also keep records for the number of hospitals, clinics in Bijnor and the number of staffs working in it, records the number of birth, death, live birth, infant death, disabled people, pharmacies, percentage of girls getting married at below age, people using family planning method and many more. The health and family welfare department issues smart card under Health insurance scheme for the people of Bijnor. A smart card covers cashless health insurance of the people for up to rupees 30,000 per annum income earning family for about five members in the family.

Uttar Pradesh health society along with National Rural Health Mission

The community health centres in Bijnor aim to provide medical treatment, medical services, proper guidance and attentiveness about the treatment development, health impact and duration of the treatment. The medical health and family welfare department offers diploma in auxiliary nurse midwifery training in Bijnor.

In 1966 the state launched the National Goitre control program, this is an iodine deficiency control program under which the decision of iodization of the cooking salt was made. The program aims to bring down the goitre rate in the state below 10 per cent. The program monitors the iodine salt supply, non-usage of non-iodized salt and estimating the iodine content in the supplied salt.

The crude birth rate and the infant mortality rate is high because of poverty and un-affordable cost of medication leads to death of 450,000 children below one year and 275,000 infants below one month every year in the state. The death record is huge due to inadequate quality food, less immunity, frequent infection mostly observed poor family wealth children. The Indian government has launched integrated child development scheme to overcome the issue.

Friends Health Club in Bijnor

The Club also volunteer for many welfare programs conducted by the government like informing local people about polio camps, medical camps, awareness campaigns and many more. Each club member has to pay the annual fee to join and to retain in the club, also clubs collect funds from the local public for its efficient functioning. In Bijnor the friend’s health club established in 2011 is a health club which has gymnasium as its primary interest.

Friends Health club Address: Bijnor road, Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh-246701
Phone no.: 9675008523
Landmark: Near Chand Tara Masjid