National Rural Health Mission (NRHM)

First food: business of taste

Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …

Mid-term report: Slow progress on Plan goals for health

Unless the Union Health Ministry and the states step up their efforts and make them

Punjab must utilise Central funds properly

States blame the Centre for their fiscal problems, particularly when the political parties in power at the two levels are different. This is what the Punjab Finance Minister did while presenting the State Budget for 2010-2011. True, almost all the elastic sources of revenue

Rural Health Mission- much-touted but under scanner (editorial)

Acknowledging the difference the National Rural Health Mission has made to the healthcare system, the Third Common Review Mission (CRM) highlights that many States had come up with innovations for retaining professionals in public service in rural and remote areas. While most States focused on financial incentives, some others had …

NRHM initiative to improve baby care

KOCHI: Baby care in Kochi hospitals, be it in the private sector or the government sector, will not be the same anymore. The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), in association with the Indian Paediatrics Association (IAP) and the United Nations International Children

CAG report slams state: reveals defective budgeting, improper planning

Chandigarh: Defective budgeting, improper planning, slow implementation of schemes, faulty execution of works - the report of the Controller and Auditor-General of India on Haryana, presented to the Haryana Legislative Assembly, found this and much more. It also brought to light, inter alia, deficiencies in systems and procedures, excess payments, …

CAG report slams state: Reveals defective budgeting, improper planning

Defective budgeting, improper planning, slow implementation of schemes, faulty execution of works - the report of the Controller and Auditor-General of India on Haryana, presented to the Haryana Legislative Assembly, found this and much more. It also brought to light, inter alia, deficiencies in systems and procedures, excess payments, wasteful …

Rural healthcare and indebtedness in Punjab

Despite many policy measures taken by the central and state governments, the indebtedness of farmers, especially marginal and small cultivators, keeps increasing. Some recent studies on agrarian distress show the significant role of healthcare expenditure in increasing indebtedness. This article presents the result of a study conducted in selected villages …

Soon, unified health plan for countrys poor

New Delhi: With an ambitious target to ensure health facilities for the country

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. During the same period, the state received Rs 1601.80 crore in grants from the Centre under the National Rural …

NRHM-like plan for urban poor soon: Sonia

Bijay Sankar Bora 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. Addressing a function at Mawdiangdiang on the outskirts of Meghalaya

Webcams rein in footloose doctors

Government doctors serving in rural areas of Orissa are often found missing from workplace. So, the chief district medical officer of the tribal dominated Sonepur district decided to use technology to watch over the doctors. Premanand Senapaty used funds available under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to provide five …

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

Doctors for rural India

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

Health schemes will be merged in Budget

MUKESH RANJAN Bridging the ruralurban divide, the Centre is contemplating to launch a unified National Health Scheme in mission mode. The National Health Mission, as it will be called, with a budgetary allocation of about Rs 15,000 crores, is likely to be announced in the upcoming Budget, which will be …

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

Evaluation of the Health Mission

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

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 …

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