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Health for all is top priority in Bangaru Telangana
Highlights
JSY scheme is a cash incentive to pregnant woman under BPL Category to promote deliveries in public in¬stitutions including Home Deliveries in rural and urban areas. 99,674 beneficiaries are covered from April to December 2014. Janani Sishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK)
Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) Scheme
JSY scheme is a cash incentive to pregnant woman under BPL Category to promote deliveries in public in¬stitutions including Home Deliveries in rural and urban areas. 99,674 beneficiaries are covered from April to December 2014.
Janani Sishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK)
This GOI scheme was aimed at providing free cashless deliveries and care to sick new born till one year af¬ter birth at all public health institutions. 75402 pregnant women were benefitted during April to December 2014.
Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK)
The Government of India have launched Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) in the State during the year 2014-15 to provide exclusive health care and counseling services for adolescent boys and girls of 10-19 years of age. A total number of 185 Adolescent Friendly Health Clinics / Yuva Clinics have been established in the State during 2014-15.
Child Health Care Services
“18” Special New Born Care Units (SNCUs), 61 Newborn Stabilization Units (NBSUs) and 581 New Born Care Corners (NBCCs) are established in the State in order to reduce Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) by strengthening the neo-natal care services.
Child Immunization
All infants under one year are vaccinated against VPDs such as whooping cough, Diptheria, Tetanus, Polio, TB, Measles and Hep-B under Immunization Schedule through BCG,DPT, OPV, Measles and Hepatitis-B vaccines. DPT,OPV and Measles as booster doses are administered when they attain the age of 16 to 24 months. Subsequently, they are subjected to DPT 5 years TT at 10 and 16 years as booster doses. Indicator wise Children immunized from April to December 2014 i.e., BCG(467923), DPT(466349), Polio(465974), Measles(464543), Full immunization(466580), Hepatitis–B(466571), Vitamin–A(466691).
Family Welfare Services
Family welfare services are guided by the State’s Population Policy with an objective to improve the quality of services under family welfare programme.
Sterilization Methods
Sterilization services are provided to eligible couples who want to adopt permanent or spacing methods to attain small family norm on voluntary basis. Government is providing family planning incentives as compensation towards wage loss to BPL, SC and ST. Rs.600/-(CSS) and Rs. 280/- (State Ex-gratia) is given to female sterilizations (Acceptors), Rs.1100/- to male sterilization (Acceptors). 141616 sterilizations have been done during the period from April to December 2014.
Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP)
The objective of the scheme is to provide the MTP services to the eligible couples for termination of unwanted pregnancy. These services are provided at all Government hospitals in the State. MTPs conducted during the period from April to December 2014 are 2919.
Family Planning Insurance Scheme
The objective is to provide insurance to sterilization acceptors through authorized insurance agency. 21 people are benefited from the scheme during April to December 2014.
Tribal Health Services
Tribal population are mainly covered through 3 ITDAs in Khammam, Warangal, and Adilabad districts. There are 599 SCs, 86 PHCs, 10 CHCs, 6 Area Hospitals and 10 Birth Waiting Homes providing health services. 2987 CHWs are hired in the tribal areas to provide extended health services to the deserving population.
Mother and Child Health Scheme & Epidemic Teams Out Reach Services (Multi Specialty Camps)
To facilitate access for the specialty care, specialists from plain area are drafted to Tribal areas to provide specialty care. 9840 patients are examined through the specialist camps during the period from April to December 2014.
Maintenance of Birth Waiting Homes
Birth waiting homes (BWH) are to encourage tribal ANCs opting for institutional delivery. 932 women are benefited through the waiting homes during April to December 2014.
25 MCH teams are provided to tribal areas to identify pregnant women living in remote areas who are not reaching to the health facilities to have regular checkups. The Performance of MCH & Epidemic Teams in terms of identification of ANC’s (10526), High risk referral(625), Communicable Diseases(1585), Non Communicable Diseases(3868) up to December 2014
Special Initiatives
State is implementing emergency transportation to aid the patients in case of health urgency, fixed day health services to converge services in each rural habitation for identification, diagnosis, treatment, record keeping and referral of high risk cases and health information help line to provide health advice and health coun¬seling to the public. 278 palkies were supplied to carry emergency patients from remote areas to the nearest road point.
Emergency Health Transportation Scheme
319 ambulances with trained technical staff all 24 hours and 365 days through 108 - toll-free telephone num¬ber were made operational to cover entire State. 355084 emergency cases are transported/ covered during April to December 2014.
Fixed Day Health Services (FDHS)
200 mobile health vehicles , in all, are placed in the districts except Hyderabad, to provide once-a-month fi xed day service at the rural habitations located 3 km beyond a PHC or CHC according to pre-determined calendar. 26,93,120 people are benefitted through the services during April to December 2014.
National Health Mission
NHM mainly assist the efforts of the department to provide various health services to the deserving pop¬ulation through the chain of public facilities. While GOI provides 75% of the assistance under NHM, the State Government shares 25% of the planned funds under NHM. Thus, the approved financial details for 2014-15 under NHM is Rs.792.01 crore and so far Rs.376.57 crore is released.
Telangana Vaidya Vidhana Parishad (TVVP)
Trauma Care Centres
As part of initiatives in secondary healthcare services, the Government has taken initiative for establishing Trauma Care Centres in District Hospital Mahabubngar, Area Hospital Kamareddy, District Hospital Tan¬dur.
Blood Component Separation Units
The State Government initiated the process of Purchase of Blood Component Separation Units for twelve hospitals under TVVP, to deal with the ‘Dengue’ fevers and other fevers that necessitate the patients to be inoculated with one of the blood components and not the whole blood, whereby rest of the Blood Compo¬nents could be used for other patients as required by them.
Swine Flu Treatment
Swine Flu treatment management centres are established in all District and Area hospitals in the State. Free tests are made available for swine Flu positive inpatient cases at Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM), Narayanaguda and Fever hospital, Nallakunta, Hyderabad. Swine Flu medicines such as tablets and syrups are available in all Districts and Area hospitals, Aarogyasri also covers for Swine Flu treatment.
Aids Control Society
Human Immuno deficiency Virus (HIV) is a Retrovirus that eventually causes Acquired Immuno defi ciency Syndrome (AIDS), a global Public Health problem as more than 35 million people are living with HIV/ AIDS worldwide. The HIV epidemic has been one of the most challenging modern public health problems for India. Provisional estimates put the number of people living with HIV in India at 25 lakhs and 2 lakhs in Telangana.
A multi-pronged approach of service delivery integrating various components of HIV prevention, care, support and treatment during last NACPs resulted decreasing trend of HIV prevalence, evidenced by the HIV Sentinel Surveillance (HSS).
Aarogyasri Scheme
The scheme is the flagship of all health initiatives of the State Government with a mission to provide quality healthcare to the poor as defined by Civil Supplies Department of Government of the State. The aim of the Government is to achieve “Health for All”. The scheme is a unique PPP model in the field of Health Insur¬ance, tailor made to the health needs of poor patients and providing end to end cashless medical services for 938 Medical Procedures through a network of service providers from Government and private sector.
Objective and Coverage
To provide free, quality hospital care and equity of access to BPL families to protect against Catastrophic health expenditures through strengthened public institutions and by purchase of quality private medical services from identified network of health care providers through a self-funded reimbursement mechanism (serviced by Trust) to assist BPL families for their catastrophic health needs.
The scheme shall provide coverage for the 944 “Listed Therapies” for identified diseases in the 29 categories
The scheme shall provide coverage for the services to the beneficiaries up to Rs.1.50 lakh per family per an¬num on fl oater basis and Rs.0.50 lakh through buffer, thus total coverage is for Rs.2.0 lakhs. There shall be no co-payment under this scheme.
104 Call Centre
Queries relating to coverage, benefits, procedures, network hospitals, cashless treatment, balance available, claim status and any other information under the insurance scheme or Trust scheme anywhere in the State on a 24x7 basis shall be answered in Telugu.
Performance of Aarogyasri Scheme
• Therapies (1,96,671 numbers) and amount ( Rs. 516.58 crore) during 2014 -15, as on 31-01-2015
• Claim paid Rs 406.76 Crore during 2014-15, against the total claim of Rs.964.89 crore, as on 31-01¬2015
• Health Camps Conducted since inception: 17080
• Health Camp Patient Screened since inception: 3834538
• Health Camp Patients Referred since inception: 123785
G.Rajendera Kumar
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