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Soon, unified health plan for country’s poor

New Delhi: With an ambitious target to ensure health facilities for the country’s poor, the government is expected to launch a unified healthcare programme — the National Health Mission (NHM) — with a budgetary support of around Rs 15,000 crore.

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MP govt admits: 71 kids died daily since 2005, crores returned unspent

Admitting to the highest infant mortality rate in the country, Madhya Pradesh today said that 130,233 children died in the state before attaining the age of five between 2005 and 2009.

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NRHM-like plan for urban poor soon: Sonia

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UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has said the Centre would soon unveil an urban health mission on the lines of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to look after healthcare needs of urban poor and slum dwellers.

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Drop in child death rate will fetch rewards

Concerned by the lack of substantial steps by states to control infant deaths in the country, the 13th Finance Commission has recommended linking states’ performance in reducing infant mortality rate to grants from the Centre. The commission has set aside Rs 5,000 crore as incentive grant for the purpose.

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Doctors for rural India

What of the proposal to create a cadre of doctors exclusively for rural India?. (Editorial)

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Wait for cheap medical aid gets longer for urban poor

New Delhi: India’s ambitious national programme to provide quality healthcare to the country’s urban poor — the National Urban Health Mission — has been shelved for the time being and will not be launched during the present 11th five-year plan.

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NRHM paints a poor picture of health facilities

New Delhi: This is what a prescription confiscated recently in a Madhya Pradesh primary healthcare centre read — “Above prescribed medicines are available in the medical store situated just outside the hospital.”

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Evaluation of the Health Mission

The Comptroller and Auditor General finds many flaws in the early operation of the National Rural Health Mission. (Editorial)

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Training prog on village health and sanitation committee

A two-day training programme was organised in collaboration with NRHM and UNICEF on January 11 and 12 at Swahid Bhavan, Lakhimpur for the volunteers of Nawa Bihan Samaj (NBS) for monitoring the trainingprogramme on Village Health and Sanitation Committee (VHSC) in the village level formed by National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Assam.

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