HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT HIMACHAL PRADESH
SERVICE NORMS FOR DIFFERENT LEVELS OF HEALTH INSTITUTIONS 
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GENERAL SURGICAL SERVICES GASTRO INTESTINAL DISEASES
ANAESTHESIA RENAL DISOREDRS
OBSTETRICS AND GYAENOCOLOGY, INCLUDING REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH  
DISEASES OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM  BLOOD DISORDERS (HAEMOTOLOGY)
DISEASES OF RESPIRATORY SYSTEM  INFECTIONS
CARDIO VASCULAR DISEASES PAEDIATRICS 
PSYCHIATRIC AILMENTS AND MENTAL HEALTH EYE,EAR, NOSE AND  THORAT
ENDOCRINAL DISORDERS MUSCULO SKELETAL DISORDERS


 NORMS OF  DIAGNOSTIC  SERVICES IN HIMACHAL PRADESH  

JUSTIFICATION OF NORMS FOR SERVICES

                    

 Service /

Procedure

       Primary Health Care

   Secondary Health Care

 Tertiary Health Care

 

   PHC I

 PHC II

 CHC I

   CHC II

  CH

(50 beds)

CH (100 beds) DH /ZH

 Medical Colleges

  GENERAL SURGICAL SERVICES

EMERGENCY SERVICES:

TRAUMA AND LIFE SUPPORT

 

 

First Aid

Dressing

 

 

Resuscitate

Stabilise

Refer

 

 

As in CHC I

 

 

 

As in CHC II 

 

 

 

As in CHC +

Specialized Ortho care

 

 

 

Severe Head and spinal injuries

 SHOCK

  Refer

Supportive treatment

Refer

Initiate treatment

Refer

Initiate treatment

Refer

Investigate

Treat

 

 HEAD INJURIES

First aid, refer

First aid, refer

First aid, observe, refer

Stabilise, manage, refer

Treatment

Complicated and referred cases

 FRACTURES

First Aid, Refer

First Aid, Refer

Stabilise

Stabilise

Reduce

Stabilise

Reduce

Surgical management of compound fractures

Complicated and referred cases

SURGICAL PROCEDURES

MINOR:

 

 

Removal of FB

Stitching of wounds

 

 

Basic techniques: Drainage of abscess;

Removal of cyst, lymph nodes, lipoma;

Others as in PHCI

 

 

As in CHC I

      +

Lymph node biopsy and other biopsies

 

 

 

As in CHC II +

Debridement

 

 

As in CH +

Split thin graft

Biopsy of the skin

 

MAJOR :

Refer

Vasectomy, tubectomy, circumcision

Appendicectomy, Herniotomy, hydrocele, large abscesses,

Rectal prolapse, prostectomy, haemmoroidectomy, cystotomy, Hystectomy and other gynaecological operations.

Cholecystectomy

Surgical management of intestinal obstruction, pyelolithotomy, intussusceptions, volvulus

 

SNAKE AND DOG BITE CASES

First Aid

Manage

Manage

Manage

Manage complications

Referred cases

ACUTE POISONINIG

 Refer

Symptomatic &

Refer

Symptomatic &

Refer

Investigate

Manage 

Investigate

Manage  and refer the complicated cases for example patients needing ventilatory support.

 

 

 

 

  ANAESTHESIA

 

BASIC TECHNIQUE

 Local anasthesia

 Local Anesthesia

Care of airway

Intubation

Equipment handling

Care of airway

Intubation

Equipment handling

Management of Spinal and general anasthesia

Management of Spinal and general anesthesia

 

BLOCK ANAESTHESIA

    

 

    Yes

   Yes

   Yes

         Yes

 

SPINAL ANAESTHESIA

   

 

    Yes

   Yes

   Yes

         Yes

 

GENERAL ANAESTHESIA

     

 

     

    Yes

    Yes

         Yes

 

OBSTETRICS AND GYAENOCOLOGY, INCLUDING REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH  

 

HIGH RISK PREGNANCY, INCL APH, PPH, ECLAMPSIA ETC.

Early diagnosis and refer

Early diagnosis and refer

Early diagnosis and refer

Investigate and management

Investigate and  management

Referred cases

 

NORMAL AND COMPLICATED DELIVERY **

Antenatal care

Domiciliary normal delivery

Ante natal care  Normal institutional  delivery,

Ante natal care Institutional delivery, episiotomy

 Forceps

Forceps

Vacuum extraction, breach delivery, manual removal of  placenta,

Lower Segment Caesarean Section

Complicated and referred case

 

 

ECTOPIC PREGNANCY / ABNORMAL PRESENTATION

 Refer

Refer

Stabilize and refer

Exploratory laparotomy

Exploratory laparotomy for ruptured ectopic pregnancy

Complicated and referred cases

 

ABORTION (THREATENED / INCOMPLETE )

Refer

MTP in first trimester

Conservative D&C

MTP in second trimester

MTP in second trimester

MTP in second trimester

Complicated and referred case

 

 PID

 Refer

 Refer

Diagnose and manage

Diagnose and manage

Diagnose and manage

Referred cases

MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITIES

Refer

Refer

Refer

Diagnose and manage

Diagnose and manage

Referred cases

INFERTILITY

 Refer

 Refer

 Refer

Diagnose and manage

Diagnose and manage

Referred cases

CERVICAL EROSION

 Refer

 Refer

 Refer

 Manage

PAP Smear

Biopsy

Manage

Complicated and referred cases

FAMILY PLANNING **

Counseling

Contraceptives

(Spacing methods)

Counseling

Vasectomy

Tubectomy

 

Laparoscopic tubectomy, NSV

Laparoscopic tubectomy, NSV

Laparoscopic tubectomy, NSV

Recanalisation

 DISEASES OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM 

INFECTIONS:

ENCEPHALITIS, MENINGITIS   

Symptomatic and Refer

Symptomatic and Refer

Symptomatic and Refer

Investigate and manage

Investigate and manage

CT Scan, EEG

Treatment

SEIZURE DISORDERS: (CONVULSIONS

EPILEPSY)  

Symptomatic and Refer

Symptomatic and  Refer

Symptomatic and  Refer

Investigate

Manage

 Investigation, LP, Manage

CT Scan, EEG

Treatment

COMA/ LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, CVA  

Symptomatic  Refer

Symptomatic Refer

Maintain airway Investigate manage

Investigate

Medical decompression Manage

Investigate

Surgical decompression Manage

CT Scan, EEG

Treatment

MUSCLE AND NERVE DISORDERS

Symptomatic  Refer

Symptomatic  Refer

Symptomatic and Refer

Investigate and manage

Investigate and manage

CT Scan, EEG ,EMG,NCV, Muscle biopsy;

Treatment

                 

 

DISEASES OF RESPIRATORY SYSTEM 

RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS (UPPER AND LOWER)

 Initiate management

Refer

 Initiate management

Refer

 Initiate management

Refer

PH change

Manage severe cases

PH change

Severe distress

 

BRONCHIAL  ASTHMA

Refer

Symptomatic and refer

Symptomatic and refer

Investigate  Manage

Investigate severe cases

Manage

Referred cases

 COPD (CHRONIC BRONCHITIS AND EMPHYSEMA)

Refer

Symptomatic and refer

Symptomatic and refer

Investigate

Manage

Severe cases

 

 TUBERCULOSIS ** 

Suspect, refer

 Microscopy

Treatment

Microscopy

Treatment

Microscopy

Treatment

District TB Centre

Resistant cases

 PLEF

Refer

 Refer

Investigate

Treatment

Investigate

Treatment

Confirm diagnosis

Treat malignant cases

LUNG CANCER

     Refer

   Refer

Symptomatic and supportive treatment

Refer

Symptomatic and supportive treatment

Refer

Symptomatic and supportive treatment

Refer

Treatment

OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASES

Suspect, refer

Suspect, refer

Investigate and supportive treatment

Investigate, confirm diagnosis, treat

Investigate and manage

 

CARDIO VASCULAR DISEASES

HYPERTENSION

 Manage mild cases

Manage moderate cases

Investigate and Manage moderate cases

Investigate and Manage moderate cases

 Investigate and manage serious cases, ICU

 Investigate and manage serious cases, ICU

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE

(ANGINA, MI)

Refer

Initiate treatment and refer

Initiate treatment and refer

Investigate  manage and refer

Investigate

TMT, Doppler

Treat

Angiography

Angioplasty

By-pass surgery

 

 RHEUMATIC FEVER AND VALVULAR DISEASES.

Screen

Refer

Screen

Symptomatic Refer

Screen

Symptomatic Refer

Screen

Symptomatic Refer

Investigate

Confrim diagnosis,  manage

Complicated cases

PERICARDIAL DISEASES

  Refer

  Refer

  Refer

Screen, symptomatic and refer.

 

 

DISORDERS OF CARDIAC RHYTHM

  Refer

  Refer

Investigate and manage

Investigate and manage

Investigate and manage

Treat

CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE

 

  Refer

Refer

Initiate treatment

Refer

Initiate treatment

Refer

Investigate

Treat

 

 

 GASTRO INTESTINAL DISEASES

 

ACUTE DIARRHOEAL DISEASES:

Gastro enteritis, Cholera,

Amebiasis Diarrhoea **

ORT

HAF

IEC

Management of mild, moderate cases

ORT

Management of severe cases

Management of severe cases

Investigate

Management of severe cases

 

 

GIT DISORDERS e.g. Dyspepsia, Upper GI bleed, PU.

 Symptomatic management

 Symptomatic management

 Symptomatic

Supportive  management

 Symptomatic

Supportive  management,

Sigmoidoscopy

Investigate

Endoscopy

Colnoscopy

Treatment

Complicated cases

 

LIVER DISORDERS:

Hepatitis,  Cirrhosis, malignancy.

Symptomatic Refer