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PRESENTS
SUPER 40 SERIES TOP 40 PDFS FOR UPSC PRELIMINARY EXAM 2019
BOOKLET NUMBER - 12
HEALTH RELATED SCHEMES
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HEALTH RELATED SCHEMES
JANANI SURAKSHA YOJANA (JSY)
The Nodal Ministry is Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
It is being implemented with the objective of reducing maternal and neonatal mortality by
promoting institutional delivery among poor pregnant women.
It is a 100% centrally sponsored scheme it integrates cash assistance with delivery and post-
delivery care.
The success of the scheme would be determined by the increase in institutional delivery
among the poor families.
The women who deliver in Government hospitals, health centres or even in accredited
private hospitals are eligible for the cash assistance, if she is above 19 years .
JANANI SHISHU SURAKSHA KARYAKRAM (JSSK)
The Nodal Ministry is Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
To provide better health facilities for pregnant women and sick neonates and eliminating “out-
of-pocket” expenses.-Under this scheme, pregnant women are entitled for free drugs and
consumables, free diagnostics, free blood whenever required, and free diet up to 3 days for
normal delivery and 7 days for C-section.
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This initiative also provides for free transport from home to institution, between facilities in
case of a referral and drop back home.
Similar entitlements have been put in place for all sick new borns accessing public health
institutions for treatment till 30 days after birth.
MAA- MOTHER’S ABSOLUTE AFFECTION
The Nodal Ministry is Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
A nationwide programme launched in an attempt 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.
The chief components of the MAA Programme are Community awareness generation,
strengthening interpersonal communication through ASHA, Skilled support for breastfeeding
at delivery points in public health facilities, and monitoring and award/recognition.
RASHTRIYA BAL SWASTHYA KARYAKRAM (RBSK)
The Nodal Ministry is Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
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Under this, support is being provided to States/UTs for Child Health Screening and Early
Intervention Services through early detection and early management of common health
conditions classified into 4 Ds i.e Defects at birth, Diseases, Deficiencies, Development delays
including disability.
Treatment including surgeries at tertiary level is free of cost under this initiative.
AYUSHMAN BHARAT SCHEME
The Nodal Ministry is Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
National Health Protection Scheme will be launched to cover 10 crore poor and vulnerable
families.
Under this, up to Rs 5 lakh will be provided to each family per year in secondary and tertiary
care institutions.
This scheme will have 50 crore beneficiaries.
So far under the National Health Insurance Scheme, insurance cover of Rs.30,000 was
available only.
This is a big increase in this regard.
RASHTRIYA AROGYA NIDHI (RAN)
The Nodal Ministry is Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
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Financial assistance to patients, living below poverty line and who are suffering from major
life threatening diseases, to receive medical treatment at any of the super speciality
Hospitals/Institutes or other Government hospitals.
RASHTRIYA KISHOR SWASTHYA KARYAKRAM
The Nodal Ministry is Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The primary objective of PMSSY is to correct the region imbalances in availability of
affordable/reliable tertiary level healthcare in the country in general, and, to augment facilities
for quality medical education in under-served or backward States, in particular.
The PMSSY project was to be implemented across the country by the centre for which two
major components of implementation was decided.
The first was to set up bigger medical institutions like that of AIIMS located in New Delhi.
A total of six such AIIMS like medical units were brought up in the country spread across
various regions.
The second component of the PMSSY scheme was to improve and upgrade all the medical
colleges and institutions.
There were a total of 13 such medical colleges spread across the country which needed up
gradation and introduction to improved medical facilities and technologies.
The PMSSY scheme will be implemented in three work phases.
MISSION MADHUMEHA
The Nodal Ministry is AYUSH.
Effective management of Diabetes through Ayurveda.
It was Launched on National Ayurvedic Day .
The Mission will be implemented throughout the country through a specially
designed National Treatment Protocol. 3.The guidelines in the protocol will be sent to various
state governments, which will further circulate them across various medical institutions.
The Madhumeha Assessment Tool (MAT) based on Ayurvedic philosophy has also been
developed for the self-assessment of the people with regards to possibilities of diabetes.
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The government is set to launch a mobile app which will suggest Ayurvedic medicines for
diabetic patients.
The app will be meant for use by both practitioners of Ayurveda as well patients.
It will help in identifying the type of diabetes a patient is suffering from as well as recommend
which Ayurvedic medicines can be administered to a patient.
The app is based on a set of guidelines issued by AYUSH.
INDRADHANUSH SCHEME
The Nodal Ministry is Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
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It aims to immunize all children under the age of 2 years, as well as all pregnant women,
against seven vaccine preventable diseases.
The Mission Indradhanush, depicting seven colours of the rainbow, aims to cover all those
children by 2020 who are either unvaccinated, or are partially vaccinated against seven vaccine
preventable diseases which include diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, tuberculosis,
measles and hepatitis B.
NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF CANCER,
DIABETES, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES AND STROKE (NPCDCS)
The Nodal Ministry is Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
NPCDCS has a focus on awareness generation for behaviour and life-style changes, screening
and early diagnosis of persons with high level of risk factors and there treatment and referral (if
required) to higher facilities for appropriate management for those Non-communicable
Diseases (NCDs) including diabetes and hypertension.
TEST AND TREAT POLICY FOR HIV
The Nodal Ministry is Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
As soon as a person is tested and found to be positive, he will be provided with Antiretroviral
Therapy irrespective of his CD count or clinical stage.
The ART will be for all men, women, adolescents and children who have been diagnosed as a
HIV + case.
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This will improve longevity, improve quality of life of those infected and will save them from
many opportunistic infections, especially TB.
REVISED NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL PROGRAMME
The Nodal Ministry is Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Strengthening and improving quality of basic TB services addressing TB HIV co-infection,
other co-morbidities and MDR-TB
Engaging with care providers both in the public and the private sector
Targeted intervention in the vulnerable population and strengthening urban TB control along
with active case finding activities
Integrating newer molecular diagnostics for TB in the health system (CBNAAT) for early
diagnosis of MDR TB
Leveraging of Information Communication Technology for enhancing TB notification and
strengthening of monitoring1. Under the RNTCP, Government is committed to end
tuberculosis by 2025.
The strategies adopted for this purpose include strengthening and improving quality of basic
TB services, engaging with providers other than public, addressing TB HIV co-infection, other
co-morbidities and programmatic management of drug resistant TB.
NATIONAL LEPROSY ERADICATION (NLEP) TO ELIMINATE LEPROSY FROM
THE COUNTRY
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The Nodal Ministry is Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
With a view to eliminating leprosy from the country, a three-pronged strategy has been adopted
for early detection of leprosy cases in the community during 2016-17:
Leprosy Case Detection Campaign for high endemic districts.
Focused Leprosy Campaign for hot spots.
Specific plan for Case Detection in Hard to reach areas.
NATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR MALARIA ELIMINATION
The Nodal Ministry is Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
To Eliminate malaria (zero indigenous cases) throughout the entire country by 2030; and
Maintain malaria-free status in areas where malaria transmission has been interrupted and
prevent re-introduction of malaria.
Eliminate malaria from all 26 States including 15 low (Category 1) and 11 moderate (Category
2) transmission States/Union Territories (UTs) by 2022;
Reduce the incidence of malaria to less than 1 case per 1000 population per year in all States
and UTs and their districts by 2024;
Interrupt indigenous transmission of malaria throughout the entire country, including all 10
high transmission States and Union Territories (Category 3) by 2027; and
Prevent the re-establishment of local transmission of malaria in areas where it has been
eliminated and maintain national malaria-free status by 2030 and beyond.
ELIMINATION OF LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS (ELF) PROGRAMME
The Nodal Ministry is Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
This initiative goes beyond addressing sexual and
reproductive health and introduces focus on
nutrition, sexual & reproductive health, injuries and
violence (including gender based violence), non-
communicable diseases, mental health and
substance misuse.