Islamabad Capital Territory Administration

NAVIGATION

DEPARTMENTS

Auqaf Department

Civil Defense Department

Cooperative Societies Department

District Attorney Department

Excise & Taxation Department

Local Government & Rural Development

Food Department (Price List)

Health Department

CITIZEN SERVICES

Domicile Issuance

International Driving Permit Issuance

District Health Department

Provision of curative and preventive health services to the rural population of ICT: Through first level health facilities:

The first level health services are being delivered through 03 Rural Health Centers and 14 Basic Health Units. The services include immunization, antenatal care, health education, treatment of general ailments and provision of essential medicines. During the year 2009, 3,00,00 patients have reported to these facilities. It is calculated that on an average, each patient was provided the medicines costing only Rs.11/- per visit.

National Programme for Family Planning & Primary Health Care, ICT Islamabad:

The Government of Pakistan started a countrywide crash program to provide doorstep Health Facilities with special emphasis on Family Planning and Primary Health Care. Initially the program was titled as Prime Minister for Family Planning & Primary Health Care but presently known as National Programme for Family Planning & Primary Health Care. Under the program every 1000 population or 200 households are provided a health house. The Lady Health Worker living in the same area establishes the health house by converting a part of her own residence. A total number of 345 LHWs are presently working. The LHWs Supervisor is carrying out supervisory job while the District Coordinator is given a part time duty for overall supervision. All the logistics to run this program are being provided by the Federal Ministry of Health. LHWs are also involved in different kind of Campaigns run by Government of Pakistan, Like Polio & Measles etc.
Besides providing the Health coverage, LHWs are also involved in collecting different kind of data on Health water sanitation indicators. Following tables reveals a status of indicators in ICT for the 2009.

S.#	Indicators	2009
01	Population Coverage by LHWs	44%
02	Person per family ratio	6.8
03	Families using tap water	47%
04	%age of Woman given TT Vaccine	90.20%
05	%age of women registered for Antenatal care at FLCF	90.19%
06	%age of Children Fully Immunized	95.10%
07	Infant Mortality rate per 1,000 live births	37.49
08	Maternal Mortality ratio per 100,000 live births	31.91
09	Contraceptive Prevalence rate	48.26

During the year 2009, the LHWs for the purpose of minor aliments attended 317,700 patients. In ICT the LHWs program is also integrated with the RHCs / BHUs for the purpose of monitoring.