Mission. The objective is to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality by promoting institutional
delivery among poor pregnant women.
Family Planning
Mission Parivar Vikas was launched for substantially increasing the access to contraceptives
and family planning services in 146 high fertility districts of seven high focus states (Uttar
Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Assam) with TFR of 3
and above.
Free Drugs
The initiative has been launched with an objective to put in place systems such as facility
wise Essential Drug List (EDL), robust procurement system, IT backed logistics and supply
chain management, proper warehousing and necessary drug regulatory and quality assurance
mechanisms, standard treatment guidelines, prescription audit and grievance redressal systems
etc, to ensure provision of quality free essential drugs.
Free Diagnostic Services
The objective behind the NHM free diagnostic services initiative is to reduce the out-of-
pocket expenditure on diagnostics as well as to improve the quality of care. Support is provided
to states for providing essential diagnostics free of cost in public health facilities. Operational
Guidelines on this initiative have been released on 2nd July, 2015. Five states, namely, Andhra
Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, J&K and Tripura, have already adopted the model as per the
national guidelines.
National Ambulance Services
One of the achievements of NRHM is the patient transport ambulances operating under Dial
108/102 ambulance service. Dial 108 is emergency response system, primarily designed to attend
to patients of critical care, trauma and accident victims etc. Dial 102 services essentially consist
of basic patient transport aimed to cater to the needs of pregnant women and children though
other categories are also taking benefit and are not excluded.
National Mobile Medical Unit
Objective of MMU is to take health care to the door step of the public in the rural and
underserved areas, especially in under-served areas. 1122 MMU are operational in the country
across 335 districts. A whole range of health care services are provided ranging from treatment
of minor ailments, communicable and non communicable diseases, reproductive and child
health, family planning services and in some cases free of cost diagnostics services to the
population in the target area.
National Urban Health Mission
National Urban Health Mission is the initiative to strengthen health systems and service
delivery in the urban areas. Under this, 1057 cities/ towns are covered and 4544 existing
facilities approved for strengthening as U-PHCs.
Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan
The programme aims to provide assured, comprehensive and quality antenatal care, free of