Only 310 districts have mobile medical units
3 Jul 2009, 1846 Hrs

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New Delhi, July 3 Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said that out of 595 districts of the country only 310 district were covered with mobile medical units and the state governments should bare the responsibility to implements this project effectively.

The UPA government in its previous term had planned to set up mobile medical units to cater to rural population in each and every district of the country under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM)

Answering to a supplementary raised by Ravishankar Prasad of the BJP, Azad said though the Union Government is providing funds to set up mobile medical center, but many state governments have not sent proposals to set up such units.

Azad informed the Rajya Sabha that, five years after the implementation of Natioanl Rural Health Mission (NRHM) states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have recently shown interest to avail benefits under this scheme.

He said the Centre has categorised areas based on their accessibility as difficult, very difficult, inaccessible, tribal and hilly for providing medical facility on priority bases, and the Centre would identify the areas where medical facilities are required and would fund the state governments to provide the facilities. (ANI)

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