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MEDICAL AND HEALTH

Good Health is the biggest wealth of any country. The Medical, Health and Family Welfare department of the State is working towards the achievement of Health For All. The biggest challenge is the provision of health care in the tough geographical terrain with extreme climatic conditions and the vast diversity of socio-cultural groups. Rajasthan is a state that has rapidly grown from a population of 16 million in 1951 to 56.5 million in 2001. Growing at the rate of more than 2 per cent per annum, it is likely to touch a figure of 80 million by the year 2025, thereby presenting a greater challenge to meet the requirements of the people.

The preventive, promotive and curative services are provided through a vast infrastructure of 220 hospitals which include the 24 hospitals attached to the Medical Colleges and 32 District hospitals, 325 Community health centres, 1743 Primary health Centres, 118 MCH centres, 204 Dispensaries and 10512 Subcentres and 40187 beds. There is also a large network of the private sector clinics and hospitals
Despite considerable gains in health status over the past few decades in terms of increased life expectancy, reductions in mortality and morbidity serious challenges still remain.

In order to meet the challenges of high Infant and Maternal Mortality rates and also to provide safeguards against serious diseases the State Government has initiated programmes and schemes
 

1. The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) was launched in May 05 with the goal of ensuring effective healthcare through a range of interventions at individual, household, community, and at the health system levels. The Mission adopts a synergistic approach by relating health to determinants of good health viz. segments of nutrition, sanitation, hygiene and safe drinking water. It also aims at mainstreaming the Indian systems of medicine to facilitate health care. The Strategies include increasing public expenditure on health, reducing regional imbalance in health infrastructure, pooling resources, integration of organizational structures, optimization of health manpower, decentralization and district management of health programmes, community participation and ownership of assets, induction of management and financial personnel into district health system, provision of a female health activist in each village and operationalizing community health centers into functional hospitals meeting Indian Public Health Standards in each Block of the Country.

2. Rajasthan State Health Systems Development Project is a World Bank supported project of Rs 472.56 crores for improvement in health systems and skills of the personnel and improved infrastructure in 238 facilities, which includes buildings, drugs, equipment, furniture and Biomedical Waste Management.

3. Sanjivani programme is an initiative to provide Specialist services at remote CHCs in 15 districts of Rajasthan.

4. Chief Minister's Jeevan Raksha Kosh: This scheme launched in 1999-2000 provides financial assistance to those living below poverty line and suffering from serious diseases.

5. Medicare Relief Card: This scheme was started in 1999 in which Medicare Relief Cards are given to the members of all the families living below the poverty line in rural and urban areas. The Cardholders are entitled for free medical treatment in all the Government facilities.

6. Chief Minister's Sahayata Kosh for those persons who are not BPL Card holders but with income below Rs 24000 a year are entitled to 40% reimbursement of the cost for Valve replacement in the heart, Bypass surgery, Kidney transplant and treatment of Cancer.