HEALTH CARE MINISTRY POLICIES

(2013-14)

Universal health care( UHC)-
A health card issued for BPL people that guarantees them free
health care services at government hospitals and a discount of
80 % at private hospitals.
50 beds per government hospital to reserved for the BPL
people by the end of 2016.
Medicine centres available within a radius of 3 km
Medical Camps organized across the country for different
diseases(cataract, vastectomy etc.) so that masses in the rural
areas could benfit
5 medical trains moving across the country with eminent
doctors to take healthcare services to deeper and isolated
levels of the country.

Child malnutrition-
Use of community based approach to address malnutrition and child
development.
Provision of Vitamin A and iron supplementation at lower cost, to
address damage caused by vitamin and mineral deficiencies.
Provision of food at subsidized rate to poor families to eradicate
malnutrition.
Distribution of awareness to the mothers and informing them about
the various problems related to malnutrition.
Provision of 8-10 daycare centres and de-worming campaigns in rural
parts of the nation.
Cost effective medical care to children and pregnant women.
Women health-
Maternity care-
a maternity health checkup centre with necessary equipments
within every 5 kms radius (especially rural areas)
facility for free admission of women at maternity care centre
that provide nutritious food and necessary medical care prior
to one month of frequency
Educating the women with knowledge about pregnancy and
issues related to mother and childs health
General health problems
20% discount on women health checkup for any illness
ad campaign for the awareness of women in rural areas for
using basic amenities- sanitary pads, i-pills, iron syrups etc.

Infrastructure- by the end of 2014, we aim at:
Investment upto $15 billion over next five years for construction of
properly staffed medical centres.
Emphasis on the development of more tertiary care hospitals which
emphasise on various lifestyle diseases.
Medical education-
10 AIIMS like institutions by 2016
every state should have 3 institutions of their own
20,000 seats increase till mid term of this 5 yr plan
ad campaign for inviting top universities in the world to set up
institutes in india
no donation policy implemented for medical students wanting to take
admission.

general awareness
sex education-
awareness campaign covering more than 60% schools of the country
by the end of this year focusing on mainly rural areas.
Making protective measures available easily everywhere


AIDS-
Clear and candid information about HIV-People Living with HIV/AIDS
have provided the best response to the stigma and the denial that
shroud the epidemic. They bring faces and voices to the realities.
So,clear and candid information about how HIV is and is not
transmitted will alleviate unnecessary fear and discrimination.
Train all medical and Para medical health care staff-Efforts need to
be made to train all medical and Para medical health care workers to
create a congenial environment where HIV/AIDS patients are
admitted and treated without any fear and scare.
Reducing expensiveness-The treatment options are still in the initial
trial stage and are prohibitively expensive. While there is no vaccine in
sight, multi-drug anti retroviral therapy, popularly known as cocktail
therapy, is not a cure to the disease and may help only in prolonging
the life of the patient.
Standardisation of treatment regimens for these drugs- is still
evolving and there are fears of patients developing drug resistance
and side effects if the therapy is not administered under proper
medical supervision.
Defrauding-There are instances of quacks taking advantage of the
situation and promising cures and defrauding unsuspecting people
who are infected with the virus of large sums of money.

family planning-
The one-child policy- is officially the family planning policy. Many
demographers consider the term, "one-child" policy a misnomer, as
the policy allows many exceptions: rural families can have a second
child if the first child is a girl or is disabled, and ethnic minorities are
exempt. Families in which neither parent has siblings are also allowed
to have two children.Further relax the policy by allowing families to
have two children if one of the parents is an only child.
It is reported that the focus on population control helps provide a
better health service for women and a reduction in the risks of death
and injury associated with pregnancy.
At family planning offices, women should receive free contraception
and pre-natal classes that contribute to the policy's success in two
respects.
The average Indus household would expend less resources, both in
terms of time and money on children.
Since young citizens can no longer rely on children to care for them in
their old age, there is a movement to save money for the future.
The reduction in the fertility rate- and thus population growth has
reduced the severity of problems that come with overpopulation, like
epidemics, slums, overwhelmed social services (such as health,
education, law enforcement), and strain on the ecosystem from abuse
of fertile land and production of high volumes of waste.
Organising special vastectomy camps- awarding a minimum amount
to get the operation done.
Setting more than 50,000 family planning centers across the country
by the end of this 5 yr plan- these bases will play a major role in
awareness.