The Indian government plans to extend the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke to all the 650 districts of the country under the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17).
Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Wednesday said the programme was already being implemented in 100 most-backward and remote districts spread across 21 states. The implementation in these districts will continue till 2012.
"Depending on the success of the programme, all 650 districts in the country will be covered under the 12th plan," Azad said in his inaugural address at the conference of health ministers of the states.
The two-day conference will assess the progress under various schemes and draw up an action plan for the rest of the 11th plan (2007-12) and road map for the 12th plan.
The conference will focus on issues like education in maternal and infant mortality rates, population stabilisation, prevention and control of infectious diseases, national vector-borne disease control programme, revised national TB control programme and strengthening of disease surveillance systems.
About 25 ministers of health, medical education and family welfare from all the states are attending the conference.
He said despite the achievements made under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), there were still areas of concern.
"The pace of decline in various key health indicators like Maternal Mortality Ratio, Infant Mortality Rate, Total Fertility Rate, death and morbidity due to communicable diseases have not improved as compared to pre-NRHM period," Azad said.
Complimenting the southern and western states for their excellent performance, the health minister asked central, eastern, northeastern and north Indian states to identify the bottlenecks in the implementation of the sch [...]
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