Under the AYUSHMAN BHARAT – Health and Wellness Centre (AB-HWC) programme, which additional service was added beyond the original 12 primary health services to create the comprehensive primary health care package?

• A Inpatient surgical services
• B Screening and management of non-communicable diseases (hypertension, diabetes, cancers) ✓
• C Specialty outpatient teleconsultation via AIIMS
• D Renal replacement therapy at sub-centre level

Explanation

The AB-HWC model expanded primary health care to include comprehensive primary health care (CPHC), which specifically added screening, prevention, control and management of NCDs (hypertension, diabetes, and three common cancers: oral, breast, cervical) to traditional communicable disease–focused services. This shift to NCD screening at the sub-centre/PHC level is the defining policy change of AB-HWCs compared to the previous health sub-centre model.

Reference: Park's Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, 27th ed.

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