Arogya Keralam

Last Updated on October 21, 2020

Arogya Keralam :

  • Arogya Keralam is an institution that works towards the provision of Quality Health Care to people of Kerala
  • This  is done through an initiative called National Rural Health Mission (NRHM)
  • NRHM maninly focuses on the prevention and control of diseases
  • They make health care reachable to the underprivileged and marginalized
  • Healthy Lifestyle and acsess to health to health care are the main objectives of NRHM

Arogya Keralam : (Short Essay)

Health is the first thing that keeps us fit and it helps us to lead a happy life. Having understood this the right way, Kerala Government has come up with a good initiative in the name of “Arogya Keralam”. The mission runs in the name – National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). NRHM is mainly focused on assisting people with healthy life style. The mission has a major objective to prevent and control communicable and non-communicable diseases; and also locally endemic diseases. Providing quality health care for people who live in in rural areas and those who are poor, women and children is also a part of the mission.

Arogya Keralam : (Brief Essay)

Kerala is known as God’s Own Country. The people of this state are healthy with the healthy and abundant natural resources like Coconut, Fish and such other foods. While people have a healthy lifestyle, ensuring the same throughout the same helps to make a wealthy state. In order to make sure people of Kerala have access to quality health care and also to improve the availability of health centers, Arogya Keralam was initiated.

‘Arogya” in Malayalam (Mother tongue of people in Kerala) literally means healthy. So, Arogya Keralam is a mission that has goals and objectives to make Kerala a healthy state. Arogya Keralam’s Mission is named as National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).

The primary task of the mission is to promote healthy lifestyle in the state. The mission also foresees, plans and takes steps to reduce in Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR). With the assistance of NRHM once can get universal access to public health services. Through this Women’s health, child health, water, sanitation & hygiene, immunization, Nutrition and other services can be easily accessed. Such an access to integrated primary health care as a goal also helps in preventing and controlling communicable and non-communicable diseases in the state.

One of the essential and comprehensive objectives of Arogya Keralam focuses on population stabilization, gender and demographic balance. The mission believes that a healthy lifestyle can be maintained through local health traditions and the same is promoted to the people.

Arogya Keralam is a great initiative that should be embraced by everyone. The benefits from such a mission is tremendous and spreading the information about the same is a great help to the needy and helpless people.