Patient Counselor for Below Powerty line Patients

Rajasthan Health system development Project has taken up Patients Counselors to increase access and equity of under served of the state. They are being placed at 50 bede and above hospitals across the state and assisting at the facility and at community level to utilise quality health care delivered at public health facilities. They are being empowered with repeated training to them regarding the health rights of BPL Patients, Antinatal Counselling, Neonatal counselling and Family Welfare issues,record keeping of exepmtion Schemes 's patients, immediate attention to serious patients. They are key persons for IEC at facility level. This concept is helping to overcome the barriers of access at pulic health care delivery institutions in the state mainly the barriers of economy( money), social, cultural, and transport. They are facilitating the referral System in health Sector in the state.Dr. P.C.ranka