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provided in the primary health centre, one bed for maternal health services and two beds
for emergency services. The Primary Health Centres perform the following functions.
a. provide services for safe motherhood, pregnancy check-up and maternity services
b. prevention and cure of diarrhea
c. provide regular and mobile immunization services
d. launch programmes of environmental sanitation
e. treat injuries
f. launch family planning programmes
g. treat the patients referred from the health posts and sub health posts

f. Ilaka Level (Health Post)
Depending upon the geographical area and
population, there is provision of minimum six
health posts in a district. The main objective of
health posts is to provide the basic health services
to every family. It provides both the mobile as
well as the static health services at the Ilaka level.
The health assistant is the in-charge of the health
post. They provide services for maternal and
child health, family planning, immunization, Fig: 11
nutritional education, health care, health
education, preventive health care and general medical treatment. They also conduct
health programmes with the co-ordination of district health office. At present, there are
1559 health posts in Nepal. Planning is done to promote all the sub-health posts into
health posts. The following functions are performed by a health post.
a. provide door to door maternal and child health services.
b. run camps for vasectomy, minilap, eye check up etc.
c. run school level health programmes in the village ilaka, village council, municipality,
etc.
d. examine and treat minor disease.
e. treat minor cuts or injuries
f. provide preventive health services.

g. Village level (Sub Health Post)
The government has made the provision of at
least one sub-health post in each village counsil.
Community health assistant is the In-charge of
the sub-health post. It emphasizes on preventive
health services. At present, there are 2247 sub-
health posts in Nepal. A sub-health post performs
the following functions.

a. educate the people about the prevention of
different infectious diseases Fig: 12
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