Health infrastructure | Key functions for NCDs |
Primary healthcare | Primary prevention and basic-level NCD care: Health promotion, screening, follow-up, referral and basic level NCD management at CHCs and home-based care at CHCs |
Secondary healthcare | Secondary prevention and advanced care: Early diagnosis and management of all NCDs except cancers requiring radiotherapy, complicated cases of renal diseases, cardiac cases requiring surgery, retinal diseases, NCDs requiring laser treatment, organ transplantations |
Tertiary healthcare | Tertiary prevention and comprehensive care: comprehensive cancer treatment, cardiac care including cardiac surgery, neurosurgery, organ transplantation, tertiary-level care for ENT, ophthalmology, geriatrics, etc |
Indian health facilities have a pyramidal structure tapering at the top with tertiary health care.24
CHC, community health centre; NCD, non-communicable disease.