National Urban Health Mission (NUHM)

The National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) as a sub-mission of the National Health Mission (NHM) has been approved by the Cabinet on 1st May 2013.NUHM envisages meeting the health care needs of the urban population with the focus on the urban poor, by making available to them essential primary health care services and reducing their out-of-pocket expenses for treatment. This will be achieved by strengthening the existing health care service delivery system, targeting the people living in slums, and converging with various schemes relating to wider determinants of health like drinking water, sanitation, school education, etc. implemented by the Ministries of Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, Human Resource Development and Women & Child Development.

Goals :

i)  Need-based city-specific urban health care system to meet the diverse health care needs of the urban poor and other vulnerable sections.

ii)  Institutional mechanism and management systems to meet the health-related challenges of a rapidly growing urban population.

iii)  Partnership with the community and local bodies for more proactive involvement in planning, implementation, and monitoring of health activities.

iv)  Availability of resources for providing essential primary health care to the urban poor.

v)  Partnerships with NGOs, for-profit and not-for-profit health service providers, and other stakeholders.