National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to provide healthcare to rural population throughout the State with special focus on districts which have weak public health indicators and for weak infrastructure to bring about reduction in child and maternal mortality.
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Information on Adarani Dropback Service under JSSK Scheme, Assam
This project was initiated with an aim to increase institutional delivery which was very low before inception of Adarani project due to lack of reverse transportation and high out of pocket expenditure.
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Information on Boat Clinic, Assam
National Health Mission already providing health services to the communities residing in the remote river islands (Char/Saporis) of the River Brahmaputra in 13 (Thirteen) Districts of the State with 15 (Fifteen) Boat Clinic units. Fifteen (15) Boat Clinic units are operational at Dhubri, Barpeta, Nalbari, Morigaon, Sonitpur, Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Jorhat, Goalpara, Bongaigaon, Kamrup District and one each additional units in...
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Information on Chief Minister's Free Diagnostic Services Programme, Assam
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.
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Information on Comprehensive Abortion Care, Assam
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...
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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 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.