Role of Primary Health Care in India towards a Healthy India: An Objective Analysis

Delivering the quality of primary care to large populations is challenging at all times, and this is definitely the case in India. Primary healthcare is a vibrant policy which rests the backbone of health service distribution. Primary healthcare is the everyday care desired to defend, sustain, or reinstate our health. For greatest number of people, it is both their first point of interaction with the healthcare system and their most commonly exercised health service. The advantages of a primary health care model for health service distribution are better access to desirable services; improved quality of care; a superior attention on prevention; timely supervision of health problems; and accumulative progresses in health and lower illness as a result of primary health care distribution. In India, idea of primary healthcare was set down by the recommendations of Bhore Committee (1946). In last 6 decades of independence, we have perceived much development in primary healthcare services, infrastructure, and correlated healthcare guides of the country. Nevertheless, countless challenges are in advance to attain health for all. There is a necessity to review primary healthcare in the country to know our strengths and weaknesses to deal with the challenges in the future. This review article discusses the development of primary healthcare system in India over the period of time as well as it also emphases on the challenge for the primary healthcare system in the current consequences as well as in the future scenario.