India: Annual Report 2015-16

This Annual Report outlines the activities of the Department of Health & Family Welfare and of schemes implemented over the year 2013-14.

The obligation of the Government to ensure the highest possible health status of India's population and to ensure that all people have access to quality health care has been recognized by a number of key policy documents. 

The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare is implementing various schemes, programmes and national initiatives to provide universal access to quality healthcare. The approach is to increase access to the decentralized public health system by establishing new infrastructure in deficient areas and by upgrading the infrastructure in the existing institutions.