Primary care has played an outstanding role in health systems transformation, especially in health service delivery since the WHO Alma Ata Declaration in 1978. The Kerala healthcare delivery system has put up a best example for other states to emulate upon. The government of Kerala has designed various strategies to provide effective healthcare system with better infrastructure and quality services. Aardram, the Government’s ambitious project in the healthcare sector, envisages radical changes in this field.

The objective of ‘Aardram’ mission is to deliver patient-friendly quality healthcare services in Government hospitals and to add specialty and super specialty facilities in District and Taluk Hospitals. It also envisages developing Primary Health Centres (PHC) into Family Health Centres (FHC), capable of meeting the healthcare needs of all members of the family and to address the preventive, promotive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative healthcare interventions of the local community.

So far, Kerala Government has converted 170 Primary Health Centres into Family Health Centres under Aardram Mission in 2017. Five hundred and four more centres are currently under the process of transformation. SHSRC-K has been an indispensable part of this progression and continues to strive for materializing a more robust healthcare system by walking hand in hand with the government.

The elaborate details and minutiae of this whole process of health care revolution provided here by SHSRC-K will supply valuable information for other states on the transformation and documentation of best practices in FHCs