Year: 2023 | Month: October | Volume: 13 | Issue: 10 | Pages: 98-108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20231014
Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Healthcare Facilities in Gorakhpur District, Uttar Pradesh
Neha Pandey1, Richa Chaturvedi2
1Research Scholar, Department of Geography, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University Amarkantak (M.P.)
2Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University Amarkantak (M.P.)
Corresponding Author: Neha Pandey
ABSTRACT
Health is a state of being free from disease and injury but in a deeper sense, it does not remain the same. India has a long history of providing healthcare services to its people in the form of home remedies such as Ayurveda. For the development of rural areas of India, Indian committees had suggested three-tier health facilities namely community health care centers, primary health care centers, and sub-centers. The present study attempted to analyze the spatial and temporal availability of health facilities in all the blocks of the Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh. The study has been attempted by collecting data from various secondary sources. There is adequate availability of health care centers in the district but there is inequality in their distribution at the block level. The district lacks 9 CHCs, 54 PHCs, and 127 SCs for better health conditions in the entire district. The district needs to increase the availability of healthcare infrastructure as this can also reduce the overburden of patients on the available healthcare centers.
Key words: Healthcare Facilities, Community Health Centers, Primary Health Centers, Sub-Centers, Block,