IMNCI programme is being implemented by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to prevent and manage five major childhood illnesses i.e. Acute Respiratory Infections, Diarrhoea, Measles, Malaria and Malnutrition to bring down the infant mortality rate in India. The integrated approach ensures that all relevant needs of the child ...
Read More »Reproductive Child Health (RCH) Programme
In order to effectively improve the health status of women and children and fulfil the unmet need for Family Welfare services in the country, especially the poor and under served by reducing infant child and maternal mortality and morbidity, Government of India launched the RCH Programme during 1997-98. Goals: Currently ...
Read More »National Programme for Control of Blindness (NPCB)
National Programme for Control of Blindness was launched in the year 1976 as a 100% centrally sponsored programme. The purpose of the programme is to develop eye care infrastructure and to provide appropriate eye care services to reduce the prevalence of blindness. Objectives: Develop Eye Care infrastructure throughout the country ...
Read More »Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY)- The Scheme
Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) is a government- run health insurance scheme for the BPL family under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. It provides cashless insurance for hospitalization in public as well as selected private hospitals. The objective of RSBY is to provide protection to BPL households from financial ...
Read More »National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP)
The National Tobacco Control Cell (NTCC) at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) is responsible for overall policy formulation, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the different activities envisaged under the National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP). The National Cell functions under the direct guidance and supervision of the ...
Read More »Family Planning Indemnity Scheme (FPIS)- 2013
Under the Family Planning Indemnity Scheme, States/UTs would process and make payment of claims to accepters of sterilization in the event of death/failures/complications/Indemnity cover to doctors/health facilities. It is envisaged that States/UTs would make suitable budget provisions for implementation of the scheme through their respective State/ UT Program Implementation Plans ...
Read More »National Programme for Prevention and Control of Fluorosis (NPPCF)
Fluorosis, a public health problem is caused by excess intake of fluoride through drinking water/food products/industrial emission over a long period. It results in major health disorders like dental fluorosis, skeletal fluorosis and non-skeletal fluorosis. With an aim to prevent and control Fluorosis cases, Government of India initiated the National ...
Read More »Health Ministers Discretionary Grant (HMDG)
Financial Assistance up to a maximum of Rs. 1,00,000/- is available from 01.01.13 to the poor indigent patients from the Health Minister’s Discretionary Grant to defray a part of the expenditure on Hospitalization/treatment in Government Hospitals in cases where free medical facilities are not available. Criteria: Reimbursement of expenditure already ...
Read More »The Pradhanmantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY)
PMSSY aims at correcting the imbalances in the availability of affordable healthcare facilities in the different parts of the country in general, and augmenting facilities for quality medical education in the under-served States in particular. The scheme was approved in March 2006. The execution of the scheme is divided into three ...
Read More »Universal Immunization Programme (UIP)
India’s Universal Immunisation Programme (U.I.P.) is one of the largest in the world in terms of quantities of vaccine used, the number of beneficiaries, the number of Immunisation session organised, the geographical spread and diversity of areas covered. UIP was launched in 1985. Under the UIP, all vaccines are given ...
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