XI Five Year Plan 2007-2012 - Public Health & Family Welfare ...

person is covered under State Illness Fund, the processes of which have been
simplified recently by decentralizing powers to certain limits to the district level
functionaries. These schemes are at their early phase right now, but are going to incur
major expenditure in future as it is publicized to all those who need them. The
likelihood of exponential increase in expenditures will be a major challenge for the
State to meet with in 11th Five-year Plan.
The National Rural Health Mission will provide the major directions to the health
sector in the upcoming five-year plan. The State will give more emphasis on
decentralized planning where all the stakeholders will be involved. The planning
exercise will be done village upwards and every district will have an integrated district
health action plan based on such grass root planning. The State has already gone for
district level planning and we have district health action plans for all 48 districts. The
experiences gained so far will help us in taking this planning exercise further down to
village level.
The thrust area for state plan would be to provide medical facilities to cope up
with the increasing demand of institutional deliveries. Increasing access to rural health
services by way of establishing new health institutions as per population norms and to
provide buildings for all the primary health care institutions.
Over all Objectives
• Reduction in Infant Mortality Rate and Maternal Mortality Ratio
• Universal immunization against major childhood illnesses
• Prevention and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases,
including locally endemic diseases
• Integrated comprehensive primary healthcare leading to population stabilization
in high fertility districts
• Provision of village level health activists (ASHA) in underserved villages
• Preparation of Panchayat level Health Action Plan
• Strengthening Sub-centres/PHCs
• Raising CHCs to the level of IPHS
• Institutionalizing District level Management of Health (all districts)
• Increase utilization of First Referral Units from less than 20% (2002) to more
than 75% by 2010