Health

Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Madhya Pradesh, is playing a vital role in improving the health status & quality of living of the People of Madhya Pradesh.

With the objective of providing health services in Urban and Remote areas, the department provides medical services in the state of Madhya Pradesh.

For monitoring medical related activities in Balaghat at district level Chief Medical & Health Officer(CMHO) is responsible for all the works related to this department.

Health Department’s Key Contacts of District Balaghat

Health department is further divided into 3 categories:

Allopathy:

It is a system of medical practice that aims to combat disease by the use of remedies producing effects. The main aim of this department is to provide vaccination to the people against various diseases like swine flu etc. to prevent the disease. It also helps provide help in under nourished children.

Homeopathy:

It is a system of medical practice in which ailments are treated by minute doses of natural substances in larger amounts, which produce symptoms of the ailment. This department is managed by District Ayush Officer.

Ayurveda:

Ayurveda, which literally means the science of life (Ayur = Life, Veda = Science), Ayurveda is an ancient medical science which was developed in India thousands of years ago. This department is managed by District Ayush Officer.

Ambulance Service

108 is predominantly an emergency response system, primarily designed to attend to patients of critical care, trauma and accident victims etc.

Local Medical Institutions

At the local governance level, there are CHCs and PHCs to assist the citizens. CHC stands for Community Health Centre having a bed capacity of 744, PHC stands for Primary Health Centre.

Objectives of Community Health Centers

To make available medical treatment and the related facilities for citizens.

To provide appropriate advice, treatment and support that would help to cure the ailment to the extent medically possible.

To ensure that treatment is best on well-considered judgment, is timely and comprehensive and with the consent of the citizen being treated.

To ensure you just awareness of the nature of the ailment, progress of treatment, duration of treatment and impact on their health and lives, and

To reduce any grievances in this regard.

Schemes of Health Department

JananiSuraksha Yojana

Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) is a safe motherhood intervention under the National Rural Health Mission (NHM). It is being implemented with the objective of reducing maternal and neonatal mortality by promoting institutional delivery among poor pregnant women. The scheme is under implementation in all states and Union Territories (UTs), with a special focus on Low Performing States (LPS).

JananiShishuSurakshaKaryakaram (JSSK)

Government of India has launched Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakaram (JSSK) on 1st June, 2011. The scheme is estimated to benefit more than 12 million pregnant women who access Government health facilities for their delivery. Moreover, it will motivate those who still choose to deliver at their homes to opt for institutional deliveries. It is an initiative with a hope that states would come forward and ensure that benefits under JSSK would reach every needy pregnant woman coming to government institutional facility. All the States and UTs have initiated implementation of the scheme.

http://nrhm.gov.in/janani-shishu-suraksha-karyakram.html

RashtriyaBalSwasthyaKaryakram (RBSK)

Under National Rural Health Mission, significant progress has been made in reducing mortality in children over the last seven years (2005-12). Whereas there is an advance in reducing child mortality there is a dire need to improving survival outcome. This would be reached by early detection and management of conditions that were not addressed comprehensively in the past.