NUHM Shelved for now : Wait for cheap medical aid gets longer for urban poor

New Delhi: Feb 12, 2010

The National Urban Health Mission — has been shelved for the time being and will not be launched during the present 11th five-year plan. Union health secretary K Sujatha Rao said that NUHM would now be launched during the 12th plan. Rao told TOI, “We have so far focused on energizing India’s rural areas with NRHM. Sinve there are just two years left in the 11th plan (2007-2012), NUHM will be launched post-2012 now.” She added, “Over the next two years, we will sharpen NUHM’s execution plan and get its strategy right. Once both NUHM and NRHM run simultaneously, we can call it India’s Unified National Health Mission.”

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