Question : MEDICAL DEVICES IN PUBLIC HEALTH FACILITIES

(a) whether a large number of existing medical equipment in public health facilities across the country is dysfunctional, if so, the details thereof and the reasons therefor, State/UT-wise;

(b) whether the Government has directed the States to identify the entire medical inventory in their facilities and budget the maintenance cost under the National Health Mission (NHM) and if so, the details thereof;

(c) whether the Government has directed the States to initiate a comprehensive maintenance programme for all medical equipment to improve the public health care infrastructure from rural primary care centres to district based large hospitals and also proposes to allocate special funds in this regard indicating the manner in which it is likely to be done;

(d) the monitoring mechanism put in place/proposed to be put in place by the Government to check the functioning of these agencies; and

(e) the other corrective steps taken/ proposed to be taken by the Government to ensure optimum utilisation of medical equipments in public health facilities in the country?

THE MINISTER OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (SHRI JAGAT PRAKASH NADDA)

(a): There is no published report to support such a finding. However, from primary data collected in 10 districts in five states, the status of dysfunctional medical equipment was observed as below:

 
 Bihar	upto 43% Uttarakhand	upto 36.11% West Bengal	upto 57% Karnataka	upto 30% Madhya Pradesh	upto 68.57%