Implementation of diagnostics services for primary health care in four Indian states

Improving access to clinical diagnostics can be achieved by the creation of a national essential diagnostics list, followed by a staged process to implement it. Few WHO Member States have experience in implementing a national essential diagnostics list, especially at the primary care level.

This study examines the different features of diagnostics service delivery using sample transport for in vitro diagnostics to achieve access at primary health care facilities in four different states in India. It also examined the implementation of teleradiology services to enable access to imaging tests at lower-level health-care facilities that lack specialists for interpreting and reporting on the images.