Admitting to the highest infant mortality rate in the country, Madhya Pradesh today said that 130,233 children died in the state before attaining the age of five between 2005 and 2009.

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UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has said the Centre would soon unveil an urban health mission on the lines of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to look after healthcare needs of urban poor and slum dwellers.

Concerned by the lack of substantial steps by states to control infant deaths in the country, the 13th Finance Commission has recommended linking states

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Bridging the ruralurban divide, the Centre is contemplating to launch a unified National Health Scheme in mission mode.
The National Health Mission, as it will be called, with a budgetary allocation of about Rs 15,000 crores, is likely to be announced in the upcoming Budget, which will be unveiled by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee in the Lok Sabha on February 26.

New Delhi: This is what a prescription confiscated recently in a Madhya Pradesh primary healthcare centre read

A two-day training programme was organised in collaboration with NRHM and UNICEF on January 11 and 12 at Swahid Bhavan, Lakhimpur for the volunteers of Nawa Bihan Samaj (NBS) for monitoring the trainingprogramme on Village Health and Sanitation Committee (VHSC) in the village level formed by National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Assam.

The progress made so far in some key projects of the government as well as its flagship schemes like Bharat Nirman and Nrega came in for scrutiny at a meeting in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) chaired by T.K.A. Nair, principal secretary to the PM on Tuesday.