Hon'ble Chief Minister

श्री भजनलाल शर्मा

माननीय मुख्यमंत्री

Hon'ble Health Minister

श्री गजेन्द्र सिंह

माननीय चि. एवं स्वा. मंत्री

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Recognising the importance of Health in the process of economic and social development and improving the quality of life of our citizens, the Government of India has resolved to launch the National Health Mission to carry out necessary architectural correction in the basic health care delivery system.

The Mission adopts a synergistic approach by relating Health to determinants of good health viz. of nutrition, sanitation, hygiene and safe drinking water. It also aims at mainstreaming the Indian systems of medicine to facilitate health care.

The Plan of Action includes increasing public expenditure on health, reducing regional imbalance in health infrastructure, pooling resources, integration of organizational structures, optimization of health manpower, decentralization and district management of health programmes, community participation and ownership of assets, induction of management and financial personnel into district health system, and operationalising Community Health Centres into functional hospitals meeting Indian Public Health Standards in each Block of the Country.

The Goal of the Mission is to improve the availability of and access to quality health care by people, especially for those residing in rural areas, the poor, women and children.

Vision

The National Health Mission seeks to provide effective healthcare to rural population throughout the country with special focus on 18 states, which have weak public health indicators and /or weak infrastructure. These 18 States are:
Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Madhya Pradesh, Nayaland, Orissa, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttaranchal and Uttar Pradesh.

  1. The Mission is an articulation of the commitment of the Government to raise public spending on health from 0.9% of GDP to 2-3% of GDP.
  2. It aims to undertake architectural correction of the health system to enable it to effectively handle increased allocations and promote policies that strengthen public health management and service delivery in the country.
  3. It has as its key components provision of a female health activist in each village, a village health plan prepared through a local team headed by the Health & Sanitation Committee of the Panchayat, strengthening of the rural hospital for effective curative care and made measurable and accountable to the community through Indian Public Health Standards (IPHS), and integration of vertical Health & Family Welfare Programmes and Funds for optimal utilisation of funds and infrastructure and strengthening delivery of primary healthcare.
  4. It seeks to revitalise local health traditions and mainstream AYUSH into the public health system.
  5. It aims at effective integration of health concerns with determinants of health like sanitation & hygiene, nutrition, and safe drinking water through a District Plan of Health.
  6. It seeks decentralization of programmes for district management of health.
  7. It seeks to address the inter-State and inter-district disparities, especially among the 18 high focus States, including unmet needs for public health infrastructure.
  8. It shall define time-bound goals and report publicly on their progress.
  9. It seeks to improve access of rural people, especially poor women and children, to equitable, affordable, accountable and effective primary healthcare.

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