Lucknow: In a bid to provide easy access to better health and medical facilities to the people in Uttar Pradesh, the Yogi Adityanath government has given instructions to connect all the community health centres (CHCs) and primary health centres (PHCs) in urban and rural areas with the main roads. In order to provide relief to the patients, the process of strengthening all the CHC and PHC-connected roads in the state is underway in full swing. There are 3,011 PHCs and 855 CHCs in the state while the number of urban PHCs is 592.
There are nine CHCs, 28 PHCs, 52 health post centres and eight urban PHCs in the state capital Lucknow alone. Following the instructions of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the campaign to make the roads leading to CHCs and PHCs in all districts pothole-free has been intensified. The repair work of dilapidated roads is being done at a rapid pace. To complete this work, responsibility has been entrusted to the Urban Development Department, Municipal Corporations, Public Works Departments (PWD), gram panchayats, urban and rural bodies. With the onset of the rainy season, adequate arrangements have been made for the treatment of patients in the hospitals.