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๐ŸŸ WHAT ARE IMPORTANT STEPS TAKEN BY THE GOVERNMENT TO IMPROVE RURAL LIVES?

๐Ÿ“SERIES OF 23/06/2023


✅Rural communities in India suffer from a significant lack of access to healthcare. This lack of access results in high rates of maternal mortality, infant mortality, and malnutrition, as well as low life expectancy and low vaccination rates.

๐Ÿ”ฑThe WHO Constitution (1946) envisages “the highest attainable standard of health as a fundamental right of every human being .”
✅ Fundamental Rights: Article 21 of the Indian Constitution guarantees a fundamental right to life & personal liberty. The right to health is inherent to a life with dignity.
✅ DPSP: Articles 38, 39, 42, 43, & 47 put the obligation on the state in order to ensure the effective realization of the right to health.


๐Ÿšฉ landmark judgment in Parmanand Katara Vs Union of India (1989), Supreme Court had ruled that every doctor whether at a government hospital or otherwise has the professional obligation to extend his services with due expertise for protecting life.

๐ŸŸ The Challenges and innovative solutions to rural health dilemma -

according to the data of National Rural Health Mission .It is observed that 70% of population has no access to specialist care as 80% of specialists live in urban areas. Only 13% of rural population have access to primary health centers, 33% to sub-center and 9.6% to a hospital (NFHS-II).
the significant schemes and programs implemented by the government for the rural areas are
Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent health

• Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakaram (JSSK)
• Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram(RKSK)

๐Ÿ”ทNational Nutritional Programmes

• National Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control Programme
• MAA (Mothers’ Absolute Affection) Programme for Infant and Young Child Feeding

๐Ÿ”ทCommunicable diseases

• Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP)
• Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP)
• National Leprosy Eradication Programme (NLEP)

๐Ÿ”ทNon-communicable diseases

• National Tobacco Control Programme(NTCP)
• National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases & Stroke (NPCDCS)
• National Programme for Control Treatment of Occupational Diseases
• National Programme for Prevention and Control of Deafness (NPPCD)
• National Mental Health Programme

๐ŸšฉBy instituting ‘innovation clinics’, the consulting scientists and doctors could join hands in order to translate their respective knowledge useful for bedside of patient around the Model Rural Research Centre of ICMR. This will be important in fulfilling the PM’s concept of ‘make in India’ thereby saving both the costs of import thereby enabling affordable health care.

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