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W.B.C.S. Notes On – Ministry Of Health And Family Welfare -Government Of India Schemes.
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1.Menstrual Hygiene for Adolescent Girls Schemes
• To address the need of menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls residing primarily in rural areas,Government of India is supporting the Menstrual
Hygiene Scheme.Continue Reading W.B.C.S. Notes On – Ministry Of Health And Family Welfare -Government Of India Schemes.
• Under the Menstrual Hygiene Scheme –
o Funds are provided to States/UTs through National Health Mission for decentralized procurement of sanitary napkins packs for provision primarily to rural adolescent girls at subsidized rates.
o This scheme is encompassing the following:
▪ Increasing awareness among adolescent girls on Menstrual Hygiene
▪ Improving access to and use of high quality sanitary napkins by adolescent girls in rural areas.
▪ Ensuring safe disposal of Sanitary Napkins in an environmentally friendly
manner.
▪ Provision of funds to ASHAs to hold monthly meeting with adolescents to
discuss issues related to menstrual hygiene.
• Information Education and Communication (IEC) Material Developed:
o A range of IEC material has been developed, using a 360 degree approach to create
awareness among adolescent girls about safe & hygienic menstrual health practices
including audio, video and reading materials for adolescent girls and job-aids for ASHAs and
other field level functionaries for communicating with adolescent girls.
o ASHAs across the country are trained and play a significant role in promotion of use and
distribution of the sanitary napkins.
o Department of Health Research, under the Ministry of Health, is involved in assessment of
all newer, alternative, environment friendly menstrual hygiene products to look into their
safety and acceptability features.
2. Mission Indradhanush
• ‘Mission Indradhanush’ has been selected as one of the 12 best practices globally and has been featured in a special issue of the British Medical Journal titled ‘Improving vaccination coverage in
India: lessons from Intensified Mission Indradhanush, a cross-sectoral systems strengthening strategy’.
• Mission Indradhanush was showcased during the ‘Partner’s Forum’ held at New Delhi on 12th
13th December 2018 which was attended by around 1200 international and national delegates
working on Maternal, New-born, Child and Adolescent Health.
• Background:
• Mission Indradhanush –To strengthen and re-energize the programme and achieve full
immunization coverage for all children and pregnant women at a rapid
pace, the Government of India launched “Mission indradhanush” in
December 2014.
• Mission Indradhanush’s Goal –
o The ultimate goal is to ensure full immunization with all available
vaccines for children up to two years of age and pregnant women
against seven vaccine preventable diseases.
o The diseases being targeted are diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus,
poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, measles and Hepatitis B.
o In addition to these, vaccines for Japanese Encephalitis and
Haemophilus influenzae type B are also being provided in selected
states.
o In 2016, four new additions have been made namely Rubella, Japanese
Encephalitis, Injectable Polio Vaccine Bivalent and Rotavirus.
o In 2017, Pneumonia was added to the Mission by
incorporating Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine under Universal
Immunization Programme.
o The Government has identified 201 high focus districts across 28 states
that have the highest number of partially immunized and unimmunized
children.
• Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) –
o To further intensify the immunization programme, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi launched the Intensified Mission (IMI) on October 8,
2017.
o Government of India aims to reach each and every child up to two years
of age and all those pregnant women who have been left uncovered
under the routine immunization programme/UIP.
3. Ayushman Bharat–PM Jan Arogya Yojana
• Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme.
• It is an umbrella of two major health initiatives, namely Health and wellness Centres and National Health Protection Scheme.
• Health and Wellness Centres:
o Under this 1.5 lakh existing sub centres will bring health care system
closer to the homes of people in the form of Health and wellness
centres.
o These centres will provide comprehensive health care, including for
non-communicable diseases and maternal and child health services.
o List of Services to be provided at Health & Wellness Centre
▪ Pregnancy care and maternal health services
▪ Neonatal and infant health services
▪ Child health
▪ Chronic communicable diseases
▪ Non-communicable diseases
▪ Management of mental illness
▪ Dental care
▪ Eye care
Geriatric care Emergency medicine
▪ National Health Protection Mission (AB-PMJAY)
• Benefits:
o AB-PMJAY provides a defined benefit cover of Rs. 5 lakh per family per year. This cover will take care of almost all secondary care and most of tertiary care procedures.
o To ensure that nobody is left out (especially women, children and elderly) there will be no cap on family size and age in the scheme.
o The benefit cover will also include pre and post-hospitalisation expenses. A defined transport allowance per hospitalization will also be paid to the beneficiary.
o Benefits of the scheme are portable across the country and a beneficiary covered under the scheme will be allowed to take cashless benefits from any public/private empanelled hospitals across the country.
• Eligibility
o AB-PMJAY is an entitlement-based scheme with entitlement decided on the basis of deprivation criteria in the SECC database.
o AB-PMJAY will target about 10.74 crore poor, deprived rural families and identified occupational category of urban workers’ families as per the latest Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) data covering both rural and urban.
• Implementation
o At the national level to manage, a National Health Agency has been set up.
o States/ UTs are advised to implement the scheme by a dedicated entity called State Health Agency (SHA).
• Expenditure
o The expenditure incurred in premium payment will be shared between Central and State
Governments.
4. Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY)
• The Union Cabinet has approved setting up of a new All India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS)
in Deoghar, Jharkhand under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY).
• The setting up of new AIIMS at Deoghar will serve the dual purpose of providing super speciality health careto the population while also helping to create a large pool of doctors and other health workers in this region
to be available for primary and secondary-level institutions/facilities being created under the National
Health Mission (NHM).
• Significance of the scheme:
o Setting up of new AIIMS would not only transform health education and training but also address the shortfall of health care professionals
in the region.
o Construction of new AIIMS is fully funded by the
Central Government.
o The Operations & Maintenance expenses on new AIIMS are also fully borne by the Central
Government.
• Employment Generation:
o Setting up new AIIMS in variousstates will lead to employment generation for nearly 3000
people in various faculty & non- faculty posts in each of the AIIMS.
The upgradation programme is carried out in selected Government
Medical Colleges (GMCs) by agencies appointed by the Government of
India under the direct supervision of the Central Government.
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