Talk:India Health Facilities Import

More precise tags for "Community Health Centres", "Primary Health Centres", "Sub Centres", and "Dispensaries"

Based on the description of these facilities in Wikipedia ([1]): "A Sub Centre is designed to serve extremely rural areas with the expenses fully covered by the national government. Mandates require health staff to be at least two workers (male and female) to serve a population of 5000 people (or 3000 in a remote, dangerous location)." There is a tag for this: amenity=health_post - "A village or neighborhood health post, without a physician". In some countries this tag is used for a Health Post in a neighborhood or village where a nurse is the primary medical provider. In other countries, it is used for village health posts which have a community health worker or midwife who is not a nurse or doctor.

"Primary Health Centres exist in more developed rural areas of 30,000 or more (20,000 in remote areas) and serve as larger health clinics staffed with doctors and paramedics" - so this is an amenity=clinic - a health care facility with several medical providers including at least one physician.

"A Community Health Centre is also funded by state governments and accepts patients referred from Primary Health Centres. ... Patients from these agencies can be transferred to general hospitals for further treatments. Thus, CHC's are also first referral units, or FRUs, which are required to have obstetric care, new born/childcare, and blood storage capacities at all hours everyday of the week" - It is not clear from this if they are inpatient hospitals. However this article says they should have beds for overnight hospital admissions: "An ideal CHC is a 30-bed hospital providing specialist care in medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, surgery, paediatrics" - [2]. So if a Community Health Centre is fully functioning it is an amenity=hospital

"In India, a dispensary refers to a small setup with basic medical facilities where a doctor can provide a primary level of care. It doesn't have a hospitalization facility and is generally owned by single doctor. In remote areas of India where hospital facilities are not available, dispensaries will be available." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispensary - so this is an amenity=doctors - a private doctor's office.

I would recommend changing the tagging scheme used for this import to use these 3 tags instead. --Jeisenbe (talk) 00:31, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

@Jeisenbe: please check out few discussions on Talk:Standardise Public Health institutions of Kerala --naveenpf 02:03, 13 January 2021 (UTC)