PHCs and community health centres (CHC) are the pulse of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), the seven-year-old flagship programme launched to provide accessible healthcare in rural and remote areas.
According to ministry of health, India has over 23,000 PHCs and nearly 4,800 CHCs.
"There are 3,880 positions vacant for specialists in CHCs," Bandopadhay added in his reply.
In diagnostics, there were 3,525 vacancies for lab technicians.
Source: IANS