India 2018

Health and Family Welfare 293
National Mobile Medical Unit
Objective of MMU is to take health care to the door step of the public in the
rural and underserved areas, especially in under-served areas. 1122 MMU are
operational in the country across 335 districts. A whole range of health care
services are provided ranging from treatment of minor ailments, communicable
and non communicable diseases, reproductive and child health, family planning
services and in some cases free of cost diagnostics services to the population in
the target area.
National Urban Health Mission
NUHM is the initiative to strengthen health systems and service delivery in the
urban areas. Under this, 1057 cities/ towns are covered and 4544 existing
facilities approved for strengthening as U-PHCs.
Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan
The programme aims to provide assured, comprehensive and quality antenatal
care, free of cost, universally to all pregnant women on the 9th of every month.
PMSMA guarantees a minimum package of antenatal care services to women
in their 2nd/3rd trimesters of pregnancy at designated government health
facilities. The programme follows a systematic approach for engagement with
private sector which includes motivating private practitioners to volunteer for
the campaign; developing strategies for generating awareness and appealing
to the private sector to participate in the Abhiyan at government health facilities.
Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Programme
Support is being provided to all states for provision of free dialysis services for
poor. Guidelines for dialysis services in district hospitals in PPP mode have
been shared with states/UTs and the programme has been implemented with
states support in 384 districts. Under this, every facility will have 6 dialysis
machines and will be extended up to 10 machines per facility. So far, 1,069 dialysis
units and 2,319 dialysis machines have been made operational from which 1.43
lakhs patients have availed services.
Kayakalp
Kayakalp awards were launched to promote cleanliness, hygiene and infection
control practices in public health facilities. Under this initiative awards and
commendation certificates are given to public healthcare facilities that show
exemplary performance i.e., meeting standards of protocols of cleanliness,
hygiene and infection control.
Orga
gan Transplant
National Organ Transplant Programme was launched for carrying out the
activities as per Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994 training
of manpower and promotion of organ donation from deceased persons. Under
this, an apex level organization, National Organ and Tissue Transplant