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Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Dr Harsh Vardhan assures toning up of blindness control schemes
At World Sight Day event lauds “Vision Ambassadors” concept
Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Health Minister, has decided to review the progress of the National Programme for Control of Blindness (NPCB) with a view to toning up its implementation.
The Minister, who was speaking at an event at Bangaloreyesterday to mark World Sight Day, which fell on October 9, remarked that he would ensure that the funds earmarked for NPCB for the 12th Plan period (2012-17) are utilised optimally and that he would raise the matter with the state governments.
NPCB was launched in 1976 as a 100 percent Centrally- funded scheme with a goal to reduce the prevalence of blindness. However, the rate has not shown much appreciable difference even after 28 years, the Minister noted. The Rapid Survey on Avoidable Blindness conducted during 2006-07 showed a reduction in the prevalence of avoidable blindness from 1.1 percent in 2000 to 1 percent in 2006. NPCB has now targeted to bring down the prevalence of blindness to 0.3 percent by 2020 from the present level of 1 percent.
Source: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=110764
At World Sight Day event lauds “Vision Ambassadors” concept
Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Health Minister, has decided to review the progress of the National Programme for Control of Blindness (NPCB) with a view to toning up its implementation.
The Minister, who was speaking at an event at Bangaloreyesterday to mark World Sight Day, which fell on October 9, remarked that he would ensure that the funds earmarked for NPCB for the 12th Plan period (2012-17) are utilised optimally and that he would raise the matter with the state governments.
NPCB was launched in 1976 as a 100 percent Centrally- funded scheme with a goal to reduce the prevalence of blindness. However, the rate has not shown much appreciable difference even after 28 years, the Minister noted. The Rapid Survey on Avoidable Blindness conducted during 2006-07 showed a reduction in the prevalence of avoidable blindness from 1.1 percent in 2000 to 1 percent in 2006. NPCB has now targeted to bring down the prevalence of blindness to 0.3 percent by 2020 from the present level of 1 percent.
Source: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=110764
Country’s first ever Mental Health Policy unveiled
Society needs to change perception on mental illness: Dr Harsh Vardhan
Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Health Minister, has said that universal
access to mental health care is a specific goal of the government. It
would find substantial articulation in the evolving National Health
Policy and National Health Assurance Mission (NHAM), he said. Society needs to change perception on mental illness: Dr Harsh Vardhan
“I visited the famous Institute of Mental Health and Hospital in Agra this week in preparation for the launch of the National Mental Health Policy. I have promised it fresh funds for modernisation and expansion. Similar funds will be given to all hospitals in the country to enable them to open departments for treating patients in need of psychological and psychiatric healthcare,” the Minister said today after launching India’s first Mental Health Policy.
Significantly, the Mental Health Policy was launched on the first ever National Mental Health Day organised by the government.
Source: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=110417