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New Delhi: The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) launched three years back to provide improved healthcare in the country's 650,000 odd villages is facing problems on the implementation front, United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi said here yesterday.
"There are difficulties,especially in the northern part of the country, that must be resolved to successfully implement the programme," Gandhi said while addressing the annual session of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII).
Urging the private sector to step in, she said: "The private sector has a definite and growing role in rural healthcare programmes. The government will encourage such projects."
Gandhi's remarks on the performance of NRHM comes just weeks after the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) said the rural health mission needed to be goal-oriented.
The CII event saw the industry lobby announce the launch of the "CII Healthy Villages Project."
Naresh Trehan, renowned cardiologist and CII chairman on the rural health task force, said the project would initially be launched in 100 villages. He said 12 corporate houses had pledged to go to work in 54 villages.
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