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b. To make the basic health services and safe motherhood services easily accessible at all
levels in the country through health campaigns
c. To increase the number of health workers and the efficiency of the status of health
organizations in the country

d. To promote the status of health organizations in the country
e. To promote and expand health, social security, health insurance, rural and urban
health to make the health services inclusive and equitable
f. To improve the available health programmes
g. To make the new health policies friendly to the handicapped as well as adolescent
girls
h. To run preventive, promotive, curative and rehabitilative health servives as the basic
health services
i. To include promotive and preventive health services in the school curriculum
j. To encourage herbal cultivation, utilization, production of medicines and effective
management
k. To encourage regular health services in the rural and backward areas
l. To make specific criterias to run private and community hospitals

Major Programmes of Health Sectors

The programmes of health sectors are classified as follows:

a. Service Oriented Programmes
Family planning, safe motherhood, infant and child health care, control of HIV/AIDS and
other sexual diseases, control of malaria, kalazar and meningitis; and control of natural
disasters are included under services oriented programmes.

b. Private and Public Co-operative Programme
Under this programme, the basic health services are made free. The public, private and
community level co-operate with each other to provide free basic health services. This
helps to promote the health status of the people in the country.

c. Special Health Services Programmes
This programme aims at providing health services and social security to the poor, disabled
and handcapped people. Similarly, it also aims to provide social security to the victims of
disasters, conflict/war, sexual violence, etc.
Some of the major health programmes running in Nepal for a long time are decribed
below:

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