| Level 1 | Community |
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| Level 2 | Dispensaries/clinics |
Has limited staff (nurses, public health technicians and assistants) Responsible for community engagement through curative, promotive, preventive and rehabilitative care at a basic level Up to four beds for observation Maximum population served: 10 000 (rural)—15 000 (urban)
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| Level 3 | Health centres |
Staffed by nurses, clinical officers and occasionally doctors Wider range of curative and preventive services than level 2 Provide minor surgical services, like incision and drainage Basic emergency preparedness 12–49 beds Maximum population served: 30 000–40 000
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| Level 4 | Primary hospitals |
Provide referral level outpatient care, curative and preventive care, surgical treatment techniques and comprehensive emergency services Provide clinical services in obstetrics and gynaecology, child health, medicine, and surgery and anaesthesia Inpatient care and 24 h service Minimum 50 beds Maximum population served: 100 000 (rural)—200 000 (urban)
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| Level 5–6 | Secondary/tertiary hospitals |
Higher concentration of resources and personnel (medical professionals, nurses and midwives) Provide clinical services in medicine, general surgery and anaesthesia, paediatrics, and obstetrics/gynaecology, dental, psychiatry, comprehensive accident and emergency, ENT, ophthalmology, dermatology, ICU Minimum 50 beds Maximum population served: 1 000 000
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