BMJ  2005;330:920 (23 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7497.920-a

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India launches national rural health mission

Ganapati Mudur

New Delhi

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The Indian government announced a plan to increase staffing levels and improve the infrastructure in rural hospitals last week. It also intends to use village women to track the health needs of their own communities.

The health ministry has ear-marked 67bn rupees (£0.8bn; $1.5bn; {euro}1.2bn) this year (2005-6) for the National Rural Health Mission, dubbing it a fresh effort to correct "striking inequalities" between urban and rural health services in India. But health activists have said that the plan would require more funding and complementary changes to India's medical education system for it to work.

The mission will raise a cadre of 250 000 women volunteers designated as accredited social health activists over the next three years, virtually one from every village or cluster of villages, across 18 states with weak rural health infrastructure.

The activists would be trained to advise village populations about sanitation, hygiene, contraception, and immunisation; to . . . [Full text of this article]

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