One of the key components of the National Rural Health Mission is to provide every village in the country with a trained female community health activist ASHA or Accredited Social Health Activist. Selected from the village itself and accountable to it, the ASHA will be trained to work as an interface between the community and the public health system. Some of the key components of the ASHA are she must primarily be a woman resident of the village -- married/widowed/divorced -- preferably in the age group of 25 to 45 years; she should be a literate woman with formal education up to class...
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Website of National Health Mission
Get detailed information about the National Health Mission (NHM) of the Ministry Health and Family Welfare. Information about the Reproductive and Child Health, TB Control Programme, Blindness Control Programme, Leprosy Programme, Iodine Deficiency Disorders is given. Details pertaining to the Mission Steering Group, Empowered programme committee, and Asha etc. are provided. State related information pertaining to the NHM is available.
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Information about Janani Suraksha Yojana
Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) is a safe motherhood intervention under the National Health Mission (NHM) being implemented with the objective of reducing maternal and neo-natal mortality by promoting institutional delivery among the poor pregnant women. Find information about the eligibility criteria, beneficiary type and benefits of the Scheme. Information on how to avail the Scheme is provided. Details of the applying authority and required...
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Information on District Health Society of Dima Hasao in Assam
Get detailed information about the District Health Society of Dima Hasao in Assam, carrying on its activities under the National Rural Health Mission in Assam. Users can get information pertaining to health schemes, family welfare programmes and Integrated Disease Surveillance Project etc.