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Indians to get free medicines, better health services
Wednesday August 15, 2012 06:23:43 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
government proposes to give away free medicines through government
hospitals and health centres and also plans to expand health
services to small cities and towns.
This was announced here by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his
address to the nation on Independence Day.
The prime minister said the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM)
was launched in 2005 so that health services could be extended to
every village.
After its success, "we now want to expand the scope of health
services in our towns also", he said in his address from the Red
Fort.
"The National Rural Health Mission will be converted into a
National Health Mission which would cover all villages and towns
in the country.
"We are also formulating a scheme for distribution of free
medicines through government hospitals and health centres," he
said.
NRHM, which is the flagship programme of the Congress-led United
Progressive Alliance government, was launched with the aim to
provide better health services to people living in remote areas in
India.
"Today this mission is being implemented with the help of 10 lakh
health personnel, including 8.5 lak Asha workers," the prime
minister said. ASHA or Accredited Social Health Activists are
local women trained to act as health educators and promoters in
their communities.
The prime minister also said that no new case of polio had been
reported in the country in the last one and a half years.
"India does not figure in the list of countries affected by this
disease," he said.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) took India, which in 2009 had
more polio cases than any other nation in the world, off its polio
endemic list early this year after not a single case of the
crippling disease was reported for over a year.
India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan are the four countries
where polio is still endemic.
He also described malnutrition among children as a "big
challenge".
"We have taken steps in many dimensions to deal with this
problem," he added.
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