CONTINUED EMPHASIS ON
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Health
Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana (MA)
Quality Health Services
The School Health Programme
Human Resources for Health Sector
The State is committed to provide better health care to the poor and vulnerable sections
of the society. Several successful initiatives have been taken during the Eleventh Plan
to reduce IMR, MMR and strengthening healthcare services. We were able to achieve
reduction of four points in IMR in a single year (SRS 2010) and the current rate is 44 per
thousand live births. Reducing IMR to thirty by 2015 is an important goal for Gujarat. As
per SRS 2010, achieved Safe delivery rate is 91.2 and Institutional delivery rate is 79.8%.
It is proposed to take a major initiative Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana to provide
financial assistance to BPL families to combat deadly disease which often debilitate the
entire family.Other major initiatives are holistic approach on Nutrition front,
strengthening Drug Delivery System as well as Rural and Urban health systems and
cancer screening for women in remote locations.
It is planned to open one medical college in Himmatnagar,
two Ayurvedic Colleges and one Homeopathy College in
a tribal area during the current year.
The State has initiated measures to ensure that quality health services are provided
through government managed hospitals, PHCs, CHCs, and hospitals linked with Medical
Colleges. This has been done by creating appropriate infrastructure, providing equipment
and human resources as per IPHS/NABH/NABL standards.
Under the School Health Programme School Health Week is being observed since the
last two years. This comprehensive health programme covers the entire State whereby
children get benefit of health examination, on the spot treatment, treatment by
specialist doctors for heart diseases, kidney diseases and cancer free of cost. An
independent, third party survey has shown satisfaction of treatment facilities to be as
high as 97.6%
Human resources for the health sector is a core need to provide better health services
for both the urban and rural areas of the state. During the Eleventh Plan the intake
capacity in various sections of Medical Education was increased by 2590 seats. This will
be further increased by 550 seats during the year 2012-13. During the last five years,
opening of 32 B.Sc Nursing Colleges, 43 GNM school and 43 ANM schools have added
more than 5000 seats for meeting the nursing requirements of the State.
