The Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committee play a vital role in implementing the major initiatives that are planned through the Village Health Plan. It can also be considered as a platform through which all the identified village level needs are fulfilled.
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Information on Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK), Assam
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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Information on Free Drugs Service, Assam
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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Information on Free Operations for Children Having Congenital Heart Disease, Assam
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...
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Information on Janani SurakshaYojana (JSY), Assam
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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Information on Integrated 108 Mrityunjoy Emergency Response Service, Assam
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...
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Information on National Deworming Day (NDD), Assam
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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Information on National Iron Plus Initiative (NIPI), Assam
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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Information on Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre, Assam
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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Information on National Urban Health Mission (NUHM), Assam
Under this programme, support is provided for strengthening of the health infrastructure and engagement of Human Resources in identified health facilities. To enhance community participation in health, a community health volunteer ASHA is promoted and a community based unit, named as Mahila Arogya Samiti (MAS) are formed in between 50-100 households.
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Information on Mission Smile, Assam
Mission smile is looking at bringing the cost per surgery down to Rs.17,500 form Rs 20000/- per surgery, which includes screening, travelling expense of the patient, their accommodation and fooding, camp cost, OT cost, travel expense of the Medical team of the NGO within India, their accommodation and fooding.
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Information on PPP with Charitable Hospital, Assam
The Charitable Hospitals are also instrumental in providing health care services to large number of urban poor population. NHM, Assam has signed MoU with the Private hospital/ trust hospitals for improvement of maternal and child health within in district specially in municipal wards, outreach areas and BPL families.
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Information on PPP with Tea Garden Hospitals, Assam
The tea community is one of the marginalised and socially excluded groups in Assam. They remain unserved in terms of basic health care facilities adding to high diseases burden and mortality rate.
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Information on Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Programme, Assam
The Hemo-Dialysis Centres under Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Programme has been implemented in Assam in Public Private Partnership mode.
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Information on Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA), Assam
The Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA) has been introduced to provide fixed day quality antenatal care services to women in their 2nd/3rd trimesters of pregnancy on the 9th day of every month. The initiative aims to ensure that assured and comprehensive antenatal services are provided to pregnant women at designated health facilities by Obstetricians/ medical officers.
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Information on Kayakalp, Assam
Kayakalp is to promote cleanliness, hygiene and infection Control Practices in Public Health Care Facilities. To recognize such HI that shows exemplary performance in Adhering to standard protocols of cleanliness and infection control.