Medical Facilities In Sant Kabir Nagar district there are total 5 Allopathic hospitals and 27 primary health centres, in which 159 beds are available. There are total 44 Doctors and 420 Paramedical employees and 62 other employees working. Ayurvedic/Unani/Homeopathic Medical Systems In the year 1999-2000 in the district 17 Ayurvedic Hospitals, 1 Unani Hospital, 5 Allopathic Hospitals and 9 Homeopathic Hospitals are working. Maternity and Child Welfare Maternity and child welfare activities in the district, as elsewhere in the State, have come a long way since the time of untrained dais and lack of medical attention and facilities for ante-natal and post-natal care, which contributed largely to higher incidence of mortality among women and children till late fifties of this century. The government embarked upon a policy to establish maternity and child welfare centres in the district. There are 8 main centre and 182 sub-centres are working in the district. These centres are equipped with aids and devices to educate married women in planned parenthood. Family welfare programme literature and contraceptives are also made available free of cost to married couples.. Family welfare Centre The population explosion during the last few decades has been causing serious concern to the government. In order to arrest the abnormal growth of population, the family welfare programme was introduced in the district . The chief medical officer is in charge of the entire family welfare programme in the district, which is implemented through the family welfare centres attached to each primary health centre and supervised by the medical officer in charge. There are 8 main centres and 182 sub-centres working in the district.
General Health A large portion of the district is visited by floods almost every year.This adds to its prevailing hot and damp climate , caused by its nearness to the terai and the high level of sub-soil water. During the rainy season, therefore, the condition in the rural areas becomes extremely insanitary and unhygienic as may be expected under those conditions. Till recently the district was in the severe grip of several diseases which broke out in epidemic forms almost every year and caused considerable loss of life. The people , on the country , are not usually alive to environmental sanitation and the problem of personal hygiene facing them, although the district remains particularly susceptible to common epidemic diseases like cholera, plague, and samallpox. Formerly, preventive measures were only taken after the diseases had spread far and wide in epidemic farm, and the morbidity status of the district in respect to common diseases met within the community was comparatively much worse than that of its neighbors. Since Independence, however, better health services have been provided by the State, as a result of which greater vigilance has been possible and the situation has thus been appreciably controlled. Because of lack of education on hygiene and sanitation, the general health of the masses is constantly subjected to hazards. Diseases Common to District The common diseases accounting for the mortality of the people of the district, are fevers of various types, respiratory diseases, diarrhea,dysentery and epidemic diseases like cholera,plague, and smallpox which appear periodically and have been endemic in the past, but which are now showing a declining trend on account of the preventive measures adopted by the government. Fever As usual fever.heads the list, for not only is malarial fever undoubtedly prevalent, but the team is as a rule made to include all cases in whichfever is the predominant symptom rather than the cause of death.
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