NHM
National Health Mission (NHM), is being implemented in the rural areas of Jammu and Kashmir and the government is monitoring the functioning of all the rural healthcare institutions.
Recently the Chief Secretary in the governing meeting of NHM said that there should be online appointments to the common people in the hospitals.
On the occasion both the Secretary Health, and MD, NHM, gave a detailed overview of the functioning of the Department, especially the National Health Mission (NHM), J&K. It was announced that a sufficient number of Critical Care Ambulances have been deployed across the health facilities of J&K and integrated with 108 call centres for providing 24×7 hassle-free services to people.
Moreover it was given out that the utilization of funds from the last 5 years from 2018-19 has seen progressive growth with each passing year. It was revealed that out of Rs 671.75 Cr amount of funds available in the year 2018-19, the percentage of utilization was 72%. The same increased to Rs 900.64 Cr in 2022-23 with percentage of utilization taking a quantum leap to reach 98.68% for the previous financial year.
The Governing Body discussed the proposals of the NHM to ratify State Programme Implementation Programme (SPIP) to the tune of Rs 1441.60 Cr for FY 2023-24, procurement of Covid essential Diagnostic & Drugs, Implementation of IT interventions like HMIS (e-SAHAJ) from District Hospitals and CHCs to Tertiary Care Hospitals.
