The workplan for the next fiscal year of the National Health Mission (NHM) in Madhya Pradesh outlines an amount of Rs2,365 crore. This would be around Rs474.51 crore more than that of the previous year.
A presentation in this regard was given by the officials before Joint Secretary of Union Health Ministry Manoj Jhalani here on Saturday. On this occasion, Jhalani said that the main objective of the NMH is to provide the health facility in distant villages.
NHM Director Jaishree Kiyawat, Director BN Chouhan and Additional Director of AYUSH Pankaj Jain were present.
In the meeting PIP of the year 2016-17 proposed workplan was also discussed. This workplan has been prepared with a cost of Rs236401.40 lakh which is Rs47451.23 lakh more than previous year. In the meeting it was informed that by January, 2016, Rs113701 lakh has already been spent.
Fund provisions have been made in the workplan for Mother-child Health, Family planning, National adolescent health, PNDT activity and for the Asha workers. In the same manner, NHM is also planning to upgrade hospital facilities, increasing new infrastructures in the hospitals, AYUSH, BCC, national mobile unit, ambulance services and medicines.
In was informed in the meeting that to overcome the shortage of MBBS doctors in the government hospitals, the State Government is considering taking services of AYUSH doctors and for the purpose, a committee has been formed that is mulling as what trainings should be imparted to AYUSH doctors. Before attending the meeting, Jhalani inspected the services at local JP hospital and lauded the facilities being provided to the patients.