Tuesday, 11 August 2015

Initiatives for Child Immunisation in North-East Region

The following initiatives have been taken by the Government of India to ensure that the North-East States come at par with the national average on achieving full child immunization.
Under the National Health Mission (NHM), mobility support is provided to strengthen supportive supervision, alternate vaccine delivery from the last cold chain point at PHC/CHC to session site and incentives are provided to ASHA for mobilizing beneficiaries to the session site. Also incentives are provided to ASHA for full immunization of a child.
The Government of India has conducted four rounds of “Mission Indradhanush” in 33 high focus districts of North East states, targeting areas with partial immunization and no immunization. During these rounds, 5.6 lakh children and 0.53 lakh pregnant women were vaccinated in North East states.
The Government of India provides financial support to the States/UTs for strengthening/upgradation of healthcare infrastructure based on the proposals submitted by the states in their Programme Implementation Plans (PIP). The approvals for healthcare facilities are done in accordance with the population norms and case load in the health facilities. The population norms for setting up of public health facilities in the hilly/tribal and difficult areas are relaxed and are as under:-
Health Facility
Plain Areas
Tribal/Hilly areas
Sub Centre
1 per 5000
1 per 3000
Primary Health Centre
1 per 30000
1 per 20,000
Community Health Centre
1 per 1.20,000
1 per 80,000

The status of new construction and up gradation works sanctioned under NRHM to the North Eastern states as on 31-03-2015 is given below:-
New construction of health centres sanctioned as on 31-03-2015
S. No
State
CHC
PHC
Other than SHC
SHC
1.
Assam
116
o
215
2876
2.
Arunchal Pradesh
1
3
0
31
3.
Manipur
0
21
0
227
4.
Meghalaya
0
5
0
126
5
Mizoram
0
0
0
20
6.
Nagaland
9
19
0
148
7.
Sikkim
2
2
0
13
8.
Tripura
0
25
0
406

Renovation/Up gradation of health centres sanctioned as on 31-03-2015
S. No
State
CHC
PHC
Other than SHC
SHC
1.
Assam
104
0
465
1471
2.
Arunchal Pradesh
10
3
0
4
3.
Manipur
8
68
0
234
4.
Meghalaya
84
220
0
271
5
Mizoram
5
0
0
120
6.
Nagaland
0
0
0
0
7.
Sikkim
0
37
0
111
8.
Tripura
9
77
0
111

CHC: Community Health Centre, PHC: Primary Health Centre, SHC: Sub-Health Centre

Further, the Forward Linkage Scheme supports strengthening and upgradation of secondary and tertiary level health infrastructure in respect of North-East states. The scheme was introduced in the 11th Plan (FY: 2007-2012). It is funded from likely savings from other health schemes.
The Health Minister, Shri J P Nadda stated this in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha here today.

Courtesy: pib.nic.in

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