The state of Assam has implemented Mobile Health Units to bring healthcare to the doorstep of rural people with basic diagnostics and specialists
The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) was launched by the Government of India to address the deplorable state of rural health in the country. NRHM is set to run from 2007 to 2012 in all states of India to improve the availability of and access to quality health care by people, particularly for those residing in rural and remote areas, the poor, women and children. In order to put these objectives in action, the NRHM strategies include increasing public expenditure on health, reducing regional imbalance in health infrastructure, pooling resources, integration of organisational structures, organisation of manpower related to health, decentralisation and district management of health programmes, community ownership and management of assets, induction of management and financial personnel into district health system, and operationalising comm