The Nutritional Rehabilitation Centres are facility based care units where severely acute malnourished (SAM) children below five years are admitted with their mothers/ care givers for treatment, stabilization and rehabilitation.
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This programme is for school going boys and girls (5-10 years) and out of school girls (5-10 years) in urban and rural areas. The programme implemented through the platform of Government/Government aided/ municipal schools and AWCs.
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The objective of National Deworming Day (NDD) is to deworm all preschool and school-age children between the ages of 1-19 years through the platform of schools and anganwadi centers in order to improve their overall health, nutritional status, access to education and quality of life.
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The 108 Mrityunjoy Emergency Response Services was formally inaugurated on 6th November, 2008 at Guwahati. The objective of the partnership is to improve access of the general public to services like Medical, Police and Fire. There are in total 696 ambulances covering all 27 districts. This Service has also 7 Boat Ambulances equipped with emergency medicines to respond to medical emergencies in riverine areas and during floods is one of the most unique approaches to improve response efficiency in the region.
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Janani Suraksha Yojana(JSY) is a safe motherhood intervention under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) being implemented with the objective of reducing maternal and neo-natal mortality by promoting institutional delivery among the poor pregnant women. JSY integrates cash assistance with delivery and post-delivery care. The success of the scheme would be determined by the increase in institutional delivery among the poor families.
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The scheme is for children between the age group of 0-18 years (Since 1st January 2020. Earlier it was for the age group of 0-14 years) who are born with defects in the Heart. The scheme is open to the children born to the permanent residents of Assam and whose annual income is Rs 6.00 Lakh or less. Government of Assam bears the entire expenses of screening, investigations and treatment (for those who need surgery) for these children in designated Cardiac centers in the State including designated hospitals of outside the State.
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It is aimed at providing effective healthcare support to the needy and giving them access to essential medicines free of cost at Government Health Institutions and Hospitals.
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The initiative stipulates free drugs, diagnostics, blood and diet, besides free transport from home to institution, between facilities in case of a referral and drop back home. Similar entitlements have been put in place for all sick newborns accessing public health institutions for treatment upto 1 year after birth.
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Unsafe abortion is a significant yet to preventable cause of maternal mortality accounting for approximately 8 percent of the maternal deaths. Lack of accessibility to safe abortion services by qualified providers in hygienic condition is one of the important reasons for this. Recognizing the fact that unsafe abortion is a major concern, providing access to safe abortion services in the public sector health facilities is one of the key focus areas under National Health Mission.
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Chief Minister's Free Diagnostics Services Programme is envisaged to ensure availability of minimum set of diagnostic services at government health institutions. Under Chief Minister's Free Diagnostic Services Programme CT Scan, X- Ray and Laboratory services are provided in the State of Assam free of cost to all patients in Govt. Health Institutions irrespective of APL/BPL status.