Expanding Universal Health Coverage

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What are the recent initiatives taken by GOI in health sector ?

National Health Policy (NHP) 2017 addresses the current and emerging challenges necessitated by the changing socio-economic, technological and epidemiological landscape. The Policy aims to attain the highest possible level of health and well-being for all at all ages through a preventive and promotive healthcare and universal access to quality health services without anyone having to face financial hardship as a consequence.
National Medical Commission Bill 2017 was introduced to replace the Medical Council 1956 Act and to enable a forward movement in the area of medical education reform.
Introduction of a national licentiate examination. This will be the first time such a provision is being introduced in any field of higher education in the country, as was the introduction of NEET and common counselling earlier.
The National Nutrition Mission is envisioned to reduce the level of stunting, under-nutrition, anemia and low birth weight babies. It will create synergy, ensure better monitoring, issue alerts for timely action, and encourage States/UTs to perform, guide and supervise the line Ministries and States/UTs to achieve the targeted goals.
The National Mental Health Care Act adopts a rights-based statutory framework for mental health in India and strengthens equality and equity in provision of mental healthcare services in order to protect the rights of people with mental health problem to ensure that they are able to receive optimum care and are able to live a life of dignity and respect.
HIV & AIDS (Prevention & Control) Act, 2017 was introduced to end the epidemic by 2030 in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations.
The Intensified Mission Indradhanush will be held in 121 districts in 16 States, 52 districts in the North Eastern States and 17 urban areas where immunization coverage has been very low in spite of repeated phases of Mission Indradhanush and in UIP, with an aim to rapidly build up full immunization coverage to more than 90% by December 2018.
MoHFW launched LaQshya to improve the quality of care that is being provided to the pregnant mother in the Labour Room and Maternity Operation theatre, thereby preventing the undesirable adverse outcomes associated with childbirth.
Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA) was launched with the aim to provide assured, comprehensive and quality antenatal care, free of cost, universally to all pregnant women on the 9th of every month.
To combat STH infections, the Health Ministry has adopted a single day strategy called National Deworming Day, wherein single dose of albendazole is administered to
children from 1-19 years of age group through the platform of schools and anganwadi centres.
Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs) are expected to provide preventive, promotive, rehabilitative and curative care for a package of services related to RMNCH+A, communicable diseases, non- communicable diseases, Ophthalmology, ENT, Dental, Mental, geriatric care, treatment for acute simple medical conditions and emergency & trauma services.
For comprehensive management of lifestyle related disorders, a pilot project on ‘Integration of AYUSH with NPCDCS’ has been initiated in six districts in collaboration with the different Central Councils for AYUSH.
105 pharmacies have been set up across 19 states for providing medicines for Diabetes, CVDs, Cancer and other disease at discounted prices to the patients through AMRIT (Affordable Medicine And Reliable Implants For Treatment) scheme.
A case based web based reporting system called NIKSHAY is established and this has been scaled-up nationwide to capture all TB cases in the public health system.
For adherence monitoring 99DOTS has been implemented wherein the patient just has to give a missed call to a toll free number and the system captures the adherence information.
MoHFW has designed an ICT-based Patient Satisfaction System (PSS) called "Mera Aaspital" for implementation in public and empanelled private hospitals. It is a multi-channel approach i.e. web portal, mobile application, Short Message Service (SMS) and Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) is being used to collect patients’ feedback.
mDiabetes will contribute to improving awareness about diabetes and promoting healthy diets and active lifestyle, which are vital to the prevention of diabetes