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

disorders (10% - 17%) are the major causes of maternal deaths in Madhya Pradesh
(SRS 1998 ) From this it is evident that ensuring proper facilities and services within the
reach of people will to a large extent reduce maternal deaths as most of these can be
averted.
RCH II
The RCH II programme in Madhya Pradesh shall seek to address the attainment of
goals and enshrined in Madhya Pradesh Population Policy. The goals of the program is
to improve the health status of all women and children through improved access and
quality Reproductive and Child Health services with focused attention to the most
vulnerable sections of the society. The RCH II programme intervention is a five-year
programme and will be implemented in a phased manner. The RCH II programme
proposal is prepared through a decentralized participatory process to address district &
area specific needs. The RCH II programme goals and objectives will be achieved
through effective programme implementation and ensuring proper institutional
arrangements for logistics and other inputs. Institutional support both at the state and
district level with all the necessary manpower and infrastructure will be put in place.
National Rural Health Mission:
The National Rural Health Mission (2005-12) seeks to provide effective healthcare to
rural population. The Goal of the Mission is to improve the availability of and access to
quality health care by people, especially for those residing in rural areas, the poor,
women and children. It has as its key components provision of a female health activist
in each village; a village health plan prepared through a local team headed by the
Health & Sanitation Committee of the Panchayat; strengthening of the rural hospital for
effective curative care and made measurable and accountable to the community
through Indian Public Health Standards (IPHS); and integration of vertical Health &
Family Welfare Programmes and Funds for optimal utilization of funds and infrastructure
and strengthening delivery of primary healthcare. NRHM seeks to revitalize local health
traditions and mainstream AYUSH into the public health system. NRHM aims at