Lady Medical Officers

SIFPSA has initiated an innovative scheme of hiring women medical officers to serve at block PHCs and at CHCs. CMOs can contract practising medical graduates who are paid on a visit basis. Postgraduate (in Obstetrics & Gynaecology) women doctors get a higher stipend than the MBBS doctors. Where no allopathic doctor is available, even women practitioners of the Indigenous System of Medicine can be hired. The women medical officers provide services from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. SIFPSA funds upto two visits a week at the CHCs and one at the block PHCs in 15 districts. 156 Women medical officers have been contracted under this scheme throughout UP. More than 40,461 visits have been made by women medical officers who have counselled 629,766 clients. This innovative scheme of SIFPSA, which is an example of a unique public and private sector partnership, has won wide acclaim and is being adopted by other donor funded projects as well.