The area of government healthcare professionals covers Rural Medical Dispensary (RMD); Primary Health Centre (PHC); Community Health Centre (CHC); Urban Health Centre (UHC); district, Sub-divisional and Rural hospitals; large tertiary care and teaching hospitals and other public hospitals including Railways, ESIS, Coal India, CGHS, MPT, Airlines, Armed Forces, Jail hospitals, etc.
The government has been bringing healthcare to the public in special areas of concern through a top down approach through its various NHPs.
A list of NHPs is mentioned below:
1. National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme
2. National Filaria Control Programme
3. National Leprosy Eradication Programme
4. Revised National TB Control Programme
5. National Programme for Control of Blindness
6. National Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control Programme
7. National Mental Health Programme
8. National AIDS Control Programme
9. National Programme on Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke
10. Universal Immuization Programme
11. National Programme for Prevention and Control of Deafness
12. Pilot Programme on Prevention and Control of Diabetes, Cardio vascular Disease and Stroke
13. National Tobacco Control Programme
14. School Health Programme
15. Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases
16. National Programme for Healthcare of the Elderly