July 2013 News 6 CABINET NOD FOR URBAN HEALTH MISSION WITH PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS

CABINET NOD FOR URBAN HEALTH MISSION WITH PPPS

The Union Cabinet on May 1, 2013 approved the 7 22,507 crore National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) that seeks to address healthcare challenges in towns and cities with focus on urban poor. Though the proposal is in time with the Prime Minister's announcement of a unified National Health Mission last year, a few paragraphs on Public Private Partnership (PPPs) have been added.
The mission will be implemented in 779 cities and towns, each with a population of more than 50,000 and cover over 7.75 crore people.
The NUHM aims to improve the health status of the urban population in general, and the poor and other disadvantaged sections in particular, by facilitating equitable access to quality health care through a revamped primary public health care system, targeted out reach services and involvement of the community and urban local bodies. The NUHM will be on the lines of the Health and Family Welfare. Ministry's flagship National Rural Health
Mission (NRHM) launched in 2005 to address the health
challenges of rural India.