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Scheme coming for free distribution of medicines through public hospitals and health centres The government will expand the scope of the NRHM to all towns and cities, by converting it into a National Health Mission (NHM), Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced on Wednesday. In his Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort here, he said the government was also formulating a new scheme for distribution of free medicines through public hospitals and health centres.
The Indian Government is planning to launch a new urban health-care programme in its latest step towards universal health-care coverage in the country. Soumyadeep Bhaumik reports.
Activists are up in arms against the Planning Commission for its proposal in the 12Th Five Year Plan document that seeks to restructure the health care system in a way that it would be handing it over to the corporate sector. “It is particularly problematic that the Plan document to be adopted by the end of this month, invokes the concept of Universal Health Care, while it actually proposes a strategy that is far removed from the basic tenets of universal health care,” Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, a conglomerate of rights-based health activists, said here on Wednesday.
The state government has commenced three new health programmes from Tuesday on a pilot basis at Bhadrachalam and Khammam. The projects include Sishu Sanjeevani (special care for newborn babies) to cut down on infant mortality rate; Akshya project (nutrition rehabilitation centres for thousands of children with malnutrition); and Ammakulana (support for mothers) a screening programme for pregnant mothers. Elaborating on project funded by National Rural Health Mission, which was inaugurated by the Chief Minister on Tuesday, Praveen Prakash, commissioner of health and family welfare said, “Under the Sishu Sanjeevani project, 44 special care units for newborns will be flagged off in Teaching, Area and District Hospitals.
Technically feasible and cost-effective interventions exist to reduce maternal, newborn, and child mortality. This potential has not been fully realised due to the failure of health systems to improve
The disease has already claimed 145 lives in the region this year At a time when people are praying for a bountiful monsoon, rains bring death and devastation in the eastern belt of Uttar Pradesh. And if the locals are to be believed, the season of death has started as encephalitis cases are reported from across the region. For years now, hundreds of children have been dying and an equal number have been disabled for life because of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES), more specifically Japanese encephalitis (JE), commonly called brain fever.
JAIPUR: For the treatment of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) at the malnutrition treatment centre (MTC), the medical health and family welfare department has decided to give Rs135 per day for stay at the MTC to the parents of the SAM children. "We have increased the amount from Rs35 to Rs135 from this year," National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) mission director Gayatri Rathore said. The decision has been taken to bring the amount equal to the minimum wages in the state. Rathore said that there was a demand to increase the amount from Rs35 to Rs135 per day. "If he (labourer) works as a labourer than he gets Rs135. If he stays at MTC for his child's treatment, it was a loss of Rs100 for the labourer. So we have increased the amount to Rs135 per day," she said.
New Delhi: The National Family Health Survey, India’s primary source of health and nutrition data, is back on. The fourth round of the survey, which was believed to have been controversially called off,
A two-day training programme for trainers got underway here today on prevention of anaemia among children to save them from malnutrition and importance of Vitamin A and zinc for them. The workshop was
GUWAHATI: The Nartional Rural Health Mission (NRHM) organized a meeting for the Northeastern States on Thursday which was chaired by special secretary, Government of India Heshab Desiraju. The purpose of carrying out the meeting was deliberate on the implementation of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products act, Food Safety and Standard Act, Regulations, Tobacco Tax and other important issues related to health and sociio-economic burden of tobacco consumption.
