The lack of food is rapidly killing tribal children even before they reach six, leaving 51,461 malnoursihed children dead across rural Maharashtra between 2004 and 2012. The startling revelation has once again raised a debate within the government about the need to make higher allocations for the health, women and child development departments, even as the centre-state schemes evolved for the tribal population, which often goes without decent two-meals a day, appears to have remained on papers.

In Bihar, where Naxals often present obstacles before government projects involving roads, bridges and buildings, even of schools, one project has clicked remarkably well in the districts that these Naxals dominate. It is the showpiece health card scheme for children and adolescent girls, Nayi Pidhi Swasthya Guarantee Karyakram, which the state government launched on March 22 last year. Government sources said the scheme, first of its kind in the country, has been well received in districts such as Jehanabad, Arwal, Gaya and Aurangabad, all of them Naxal strongholds.

Two prestigious projects started with much fanfare by the Punjab government under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) have failed to take off.
A community hotline started to report instances of female foeticide and give feedback regarding health services has been lying defunct for over two years now. The service, started in October 2009 by the then NRHM Managing Director Anurag Aggarwal on a pilot basis, had initially met with a substantial amount of success.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday minced no words in accusing Mayawati government of misusing funds meant for the National Rural Health Mission.

Singh Sheds Mildness To Deliver Sharp Jab At CM In First UP Outing. Kanpur: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh shed his aloofness here on Friday and threw sharp punches at the Mayawati government, charging it directly with misusing National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) funds and neglecting her state’s development.

New Delhi: The CAG of India has decided to audit the spending of all states under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scheme. After unearthing a Rs 5,754-crore NRHM scam in UP, the CAG will conduct independent audits of the scheme in 17 other states to ascertain losses to the exchequer, if any. CAG’s decision came after a requestwas madeby the Union health ministry to look into the NRHM spending of all states. “The CAG has agreed to audit NRHM spending of all states through state accountant generals. It will be an annual and independent audit,” an official said.

The extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XXDR-TB) strain in 11 patients in the city has inadvertently highlighted the deplorable condition of hospitals treating the disease, giving them a new lease of life. The state government with help from the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has decided to pump in Rs80 lakh as initial assistance for upkeep and modernisation of these hospitals.

Changmey health assistant Karma Wangdi has an old patient of his to see in the evening. His patient Sangpo, 58 from Kharmey under Shongphu gewog in Trashigang has been bed-ridden for almost a year following a stroke that left one side of his chest and an arm paralysed.
He had developed paraplegia, a complicated form of hypertension related to non-communicable disease (NCD), on the left side of his upper body.
Sangpo is one of the 74 NCD patients recorded in Changmey health unit.
Sangpo’s present state, Karma Wangdi attributed to his missing timely medical treatment.