DFID works at the national and state level to bring positive changes to the health system
Many people living in rural areas of India do not have access to evenbasic health care. While some of them may manage to reach a governmenthospital in time for treatment, those very hospitals are oftenunderstaffed, under equipped, or unsuitable to provide quality care tothose who need it. There is an urgent need to reform the way the healthsystem works in India. The Government of India, through its NationalRural Health Mission, aims to make positive changes to people's livesby addressing current shortcomings in the health system to providegood, quality health care to everyone.
The UK's Department for International Development,DFID, leads the British Government's fight against world poverty. Thepurpose of DFID's India programme is to support the Government of Indiaachieve its poverty reduction targets as set out in its national planand to help India meet the Millennium Development Goals. DFID in Indiaworks at both the national level (in support of the Government ofIndia's centrally-sponsored schemes) and at the state level in AndhraPradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, and West Bengal to implementreforms in the health sector.