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Health Schemes
SCHEMES COVERED
1. Affordable Medicines and Reliable Implants for Treatment (AMRIT) Program
2. Janani Suraksha Yojana 
3. Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK)
4. Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK)
5. Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK)
6. National Urban Health Mission (NUHM)
7. Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY)
8. Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN)
9. Mission Indradhanush
10. Mission Parivar Vikas
11. Project Sunrise
12. Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA)
13. Mother’s Absolute Affection (MAA)
14. EVIN (Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network)
15. National AYUSH Mission (NAM)
16. Pradhan Mantri Jan Aushudhi Yojana
1. Affordable Medicines and Reliable Implants for Treatment (AMRIT) Program
By : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Objective : Lowering treatment cost of cancer and cardio-vascular diseases.
2. Janani Suraksha Yojana
By : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Objectives :
- It is a safe motherhood intervention under the National Rural Health Mission (NHM).
- It is being implemented with the objective of reducing maternal and infant mortality by promoting institutional delivery among pregnant women.
- It is a 100% centrally sponsored scheme it integrates cash assistance with delivery and post delivery care.
- The Yojana has identified ASHA, the accredited social health activist as an effective link between the Government and the poor pregnant women in low performing states, namely the 8 Empowered Action Group (EAG) states and Assam and J&K and the remaining North East States.
What are EAG states? :
These are socio economically backward states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttaranchal and Uttar Pradesh which lag behind in the demographic transition and have the highest infant mortality rates in the country.
3. Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK)
By : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Objectives & Key features :
- The scheme is to benefit pregnant women who access Government health facilities for their delivery and motivate those who still choose to deliver at their homes to opt for institutional deliveries.
- This schemes aims to reduce the difficulty being faced by the pregnant women and parents of sick new- born along-with high out of pocket expenses incurred by them on delivery and treatment of sick- new-born.
- Under this scheme pregnant women have access to completely free and cashless services to pregnant women including normal deliveries and caesarean operations and sick new born (up to 30 days after birth) in Government health institutions in both rural and urban areas.
4. Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK)
By : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Objectives & Key features :
- It is a new initiative aiming at early identification and early intervention for children from birth to 18 years to cover 4 ‘D’s viz. Defects at birth, Deficiencies, Diseases, Development delays including disability.
- The services aim to cover children of 0-6 years of age in rural areas and urban slums in addition to children enrolled in classes I to XII in Government and Government aided schools.
- It is important to note that the 0-6 years age group will be specifically managed at District Early Intervention Centre (DEIC) level while for 6 -18 years age group, management of conditions will be done through existing public health facilities.
5. Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK)
By : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Objectives & Key features :
- This health programme for adolescents in the age group of 10-19 years seeks to target issues related to them such as – nutrition, reproductive health and substance abuse etc.
- The key principle of this programme is adolescent participation and leadership, Equity and inclusion, Gender Equity and strategic partnerships with other sectors and stakeholders.
- It emphasis six ‘Cs”– coverage, content, communication, counselling, clinics and convergence.
- It introduces community based interventions through peer educators, and is strengthened by collaborations with other Ministries and State governments, and knowledge partners.
- It is an effort to move away from a ‘doctor-driven’ effort towards a holistic and participative programme.
6. National Urban Health Mission (NUHM)
By : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
What? : It is a sub-mission of National Health Mission (NHM)
Objectives & Key features :
- It envisions to meet health care needs of the urban population with the focus on urban poor.
- It seeks to provide them with essential primary health care services and reducing their out of pocket expenses for treatment.
- This would be achieved by strengthening the existing health care service delivery system and converging with various schemes relating to wider determinants of health like drinking water, sanitation, school education, etc. implemented by the Ministries of Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, Human Resource Development and Women & Child Development.
7. Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY)
By : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Objectives & Key features :
- Announced with objectives of correcting regional imbalances in the availability of affordable/reliable tertiary healthcare services and also to augment facilities for quality medical education in the country.
- PMSSY has two components:
i) Setting up new AIIMS.
ii) Upgradation of government medical colleges.
8. Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN)
By : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Objectives & Key features :
- Provides for financial assistance to patients, living below poverty line who are suffering from major life threatening diseases, to receive medical treatment at any of the super specialty hospitals/institutes or other Govt. hospitals.
- The financial assistance is released in the form of “one time grant” to the Medical Superintendent of the hospital in which the treatment is being received.
- In this scheme, the states are needed to create their own State illness funds in which central government provides funding to the extent of 50% of contribution made by State Govt/Union Territories.
9. Mission Indradhanush
By : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Objectives & Key features :
- Aims to cover all those children by 2020 who are either unvaccinated, or are partially vaccinated against vaccine preventable diseases.
- India’s Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) provide free vaccines against 12 life threatening diseases, to 26 million children annually.
- The UIP provides life-saving vaccines to all children across the country free of cost to protect them against Tuberculosis, Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus, Polio, Hepatitis B, Pneumonia and Meningitis due to Haemophilus Influenzae type b (Hib), Measles, Rubella, Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Rotavirus diarrhoea. (Rubella, JE and Rotavirus vaccine in select states and districts).
10. Mission Parivar Vikas
By : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Objectives & Key features :
- Aims to accelerate access to high quality family planning choices based on information, reliable services and supplies within a rights-based framework.
- It was launched in in 145 high focus districts having the highest total fertility rates in the country.
11. Project Sunrise
By : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Background :
NE States like Manipur, Nagaland and Mizoram account for highest adult HIV prevalence in the country. National average for prevalence of HIV/AIDS among drug addicts is 7.14%, whereas in Manipur it is 12.9% and in Mizoram it is 12%.
Objectives & Key features :
- For the prevention of AIDS in the eight North-Eastern states by creating awareness about the disease.
- It has been launched in the 8 North- Eastern States.
- This scheme is in addition to the existing projects of the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO).
- The AIDS prevention special project aims to diagnose 90% of such drug addicts with HIV and put them under treatment by 2020.
- It will be implemented in 20 districts of the 8 states including four districts of Manipur namely Imphal East, Bishnupur, Ukhrul and Churachandpur.
12. Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA)
By : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Objectives & Key features :
- PMSMA is a fixed day strategy, every month across the country during which a range of quality maternal health services are envisaged to be provided as part of Antenatal Care.
- Under the campaign, a minimum package of antenatal care services is to be provided to the beneficiaries on the 9th day of every month (or in case of holiday, on the next working day) at the Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Clinics to ensure that every pregnant woman receives at least one checkup in the 2nd/ 3rd trimester of pregnancy.
13. Mother’s Absolute Affection (MAA)
By : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Objective :
- It is a nationwide programme to bring undiluted focus on promotion of breastfeeding and provision of counselling services for supporting breastfeeding through health systems.
- The programme has been named ‘MAA’ to signify the support a lactating mother requires from family members and at health facilities to breastfeed successfully.
14. EVIN (Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network)
By : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
What? : It is an indigenously developed technology system that digitizes vaccine stocks and monitors the temperature of the cold chain through a smartphone app.
Objective :
- eVIN aims to support the GoI’s Universal Immunisation Programme by providing real-time information on vaccine stocks and flows, and storage temperatures across all cold chain points in these states.
- The technological innovation is implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
15. National AYUSH Mission (NAM)
By : Ministry of AYUSH
Objective :
- The basic objective of NAM is to promote AYUSH medical systems through cost effective AYUSH services, strengthening of educational systems, facilitate the enforcement of quality control of Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani & Homoeopathy (ASU &H) drugs and sustainable availability of ASU & H raw-materials.
- It envisages flexibility of implementation of the programmes which will lead to substantial participation of the State Governments/UT.
- The NAM contemplates establishment of a National Mission as well as corresponding Missions in the State level. NAM is likely to improve significantly the Department’s out-reach in terms of planning, supervision and monitoring of the schemes.
16. Pradhan Mantri Jan Aushudhi Yojana
By : Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers
Objective & Key features :
- It is a campaign launched by the Department of Pharmaceuticals to provide quality medicines at affordable prices to the masses.
- PMBJP stores have been set up to provide generic drugs, which are available at lesser prices but are equivalent in quality and efficacy as expensive branded drugs.
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