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Medical missions is the term used for Christian missionary endeavors that involve the administration of medical treatment. As has been common among missionary efforts from the 18th to 20th centuries, medical missions often involves residents of the "Western world" traveling to locales within Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, or the Pacific Islands.
Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) is a vaccination programme launched by the Government of India in 1985. [1] It became a part of Child Survival and Safe Motherhood Programme in 1992 and is currently one of the key areas under the National Health Mission since 2005.
The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), now under National Health Mission [1] is an initiative undertaken by the government of India to address the health needs of under-served rural areas. Launched on 12 April 2005 by then Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh , the NRHM was initially tasked with addressing the health needs of 18 states that ...
Mission Indradhanush is a health mission of the Government of India. It was launched by Union Health Minister J. P. Nadda on 25 December 2014. [ 1 ] The scheme this seeks to drive towards 90% full immunisation coverage of India and sustain the same by year 2022.
The Mission aims to create an integrated healthcare system that will link practitioners and patients digitally by giving them access to real-time health records. This will promote prompt and structured healthcare across the country [ 4 ] leading to the creation of a national digital health ecosystem that supports universal health coverage in an ...
ASHAs are women trained to act as health educators and health promoters in their communities. The Indian MoHFW describes them as: [5]...health activist(s) in the community who create awareness on health and its social determinants and mobilize the community towards local health planning and increased utilization and accountability of the existing health services.
Julia Lore McGrew - medical missionary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Volbrecht Nagel – German missionary to India; Jessie Kelp (later Jessie Pigott) in Allahabad and Delhi (1887–9) [3] Charles Frederick Reeve-commenced the non-denominational Poona and Indian Village Mission in 1893; Ida S. Scudder
Christian Medical College, Vellore, widely known as CMC, Vellore, [6] is a private, Christian minority community-run medical college and hospital in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] This institute includes a network of primary, secondary and tertiary care hospitals.