The National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) is setting up 54 new Urban Primary Health Centres in the urban areas of Haryana. Also, NUHM has sanctioned `34.51 crore for improving the efficiency of public health system in the cities by strengthening, renovating and rationalising this system in urban areas.
Haryana Health Minister, Rao Narender Singh on Thursday said that 48 new urban Primary Health Centres would become operational within a month. He said that 96 urban PHCs and two First Referral Units (FRUs) in Faridabad are operational in Haryana under NUHM. Besides this, the state government has also constructed 10 new polyclinics, 11 urban health centers and three dispensaries.
He said that the State Government under programme implementation scheme for 2014-15, has sent the proposal of about `130 crore for covering under NUHM to the Central Government.
Rao Narender Singh said that the State Government implemented Urban Health Mission in 2013-14 with an aim to provide quality healthcare facilities to economically weaker people living in urban areas.
He said that significant improvement in infant and Maternal Mortality Rate and institutional deliveries has been achieved. Infant Mortality rate (IMR) has reduced by 40 percent, Maternal Mortality rate (MMR) by 50 percent and under-five mortality rate (U5MR) has reduced by 40 percent in urban areas. The total fertility rate (TFR) has also reached at replacement level of 2.1 and all targets of Disease Control Programme have also been achieved, he added.
He said that Information Technology enabled services (ITES) and e-governance has also been planned for improving surveillance and monitoring, under the National Urban Health Mission.