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Indian parents bring their kids for immunisation at Civil Hospital in Punjab. This hospital works under Punjab Health Systems Corporation. a sign board written in Gurmukhi or Punjabi script. A Punjabi woman administrator writes out receipts, accepts cheques and cash, uses a carbon paper to make a duplicate copy, and attends to bookings at a clinic in India, some decades back. The walls are covered white bathroom tiles. Kids cry as they are injected or vaccinated. Hospital Services at the Secondary level play a vital and complementary role to primary health care. The Government sector is engaged both in preventive and curative aspects of health care. It was realized that District Hospitals, Sub-Divisional Hospitals and Community Health Centres lack basic medical equipment and diagnostic ser