The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, also known by its abbreviation ''MoHFW'', is an Indian government

ministry Ministry may refer to: Government * Ministry (collective executive), the complete body of government ministers under the leadership of a prime minister * Ministry (government department), a department of a government Religion * Christian ...

charged with

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in India. It is also responsible for all government programs relating to family planning in India. The Minister of Health and Family Welfare holds

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rank as a member of the Council of Ministers. The current minister is Jagat Prakash Nadda, while the current Minister of State for health (MOS: assistant to Minister i.e. currently assistant to J. P. Nadda) are Anupriya Patel and Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav. Since 1955 the Ministry regularly publishes the

Indian Pharmacopoeia Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) is an autonomous institution of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare which sets standards for all drugs that are manufactured, sold and consumed in India. The set of standards are published under the ...

through the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC), an autonomous body for setting standards for drugs, pharmaceuticals and healthcare devices and technologies in India.

Organisation

The ministry is composed of two departments and six subordinate offices. Department of Health and Family Welfare and Department of Health Research and Directorate General of Health Services.

Directorate General of Health Services

The Directorate General of Health Services is a department responsible for technical knowledge concerning Public Health, Medical Education and Health Care. Organizations and Institutes under DGHS are: * Lady Hardinge Medical College * Vardhman Mahavir Medical College * Safdarjung Hospital *

Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (formerly known as Willingdon Hospital) is a government hospital in New Delhi, India. The hospital was founded, with 54 beds, in 1932 by the British Raj for their own government staff. In 1954, in the newly in ...

* Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital * National Centre for Disease Control *

All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health (AIIH&PH) is a pioneering Indian institute for research and training in public health and allied sciences in Kolkata. It was established on 30 December 1932 with assistance from the Rockefeller ...

* Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute *

Central Research Institute, Kasauli The Central Research Institute (CRI), Kasauli is a research institute in the Solan district of Himachal Pradesh, India. Since its inception the institute has developed into a premier institute in research in the field of immunobiology and micr ...

Central Institute of Psychiatry Ranchi Central institute of Psychiatry Ranchi (CIP Ranchi) is an institute that is directly governed by the Government of India. It is situated in Kanke, Ranchi in Jharkhand state of India. History The institute dates back to the days of the British ...

Department of Health

The Department of Health deals with

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, including awareness campaigns, immunisation campaigns, preventive medicine, and public health. Bodies under the administrative control of this department are: * National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) (see HIV/AIDS in India) * 14 National Health Programmes ** National AIDS Control Programme (

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) Department Of Aids Control (National AIDS Control Organisation)
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** National Cancer Control Programme ( cancer) (since 1985) ** National Filaria Control Programme ( filariasis) ** National Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control Programme ( iodine deficiency) ** National Leprosy Eradication Programme ( leprosy) ** National Mental Health Programme ( mental health) ** National Programme for Control of Blindness ( blindness) ** National Programme for Prevention and Control of Deafness ( deafness) ** National Tobacco Control Programme ( tobacco control) ** National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP) ( vector-borne disease) ** Pilot Programme on Prevention and Control of Diabetes, CVD and Stroke ( diabetes,

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) *
National Programme on Climate Change and Human Health
( Climate change) ** Revised National TB Control Programme ( tuberculosis) ** Universal Immunisation Programme ** National Tele Mental Health Programme - Tele MANAS( mental health) * National Medical Commission ** Under-Graduate Medical Education Board (UGMEB) ** Post-Graduate Medical Education Board (PGMEB) ** Medical Assessment and Rating Board ** Ethics and Medical Registration Board * Dental Council of India * Pharmacy Council of India * Indian Nursing Council * All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH), Mysuru * All India Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AIIPMR), Mumbai * Food Safety and Standards Authority of India * Central Drugs Standard Control Organization * National Centre for Disease Control

Department of Family Welfare

The Department of Family Welfare (FW) is responsible for aspects relating to family welfare, especially in reproductive health, maternal health,

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, information, education and communications; cooperation with NGOs and international aid groups; and rural health services. The Department of Family Welfare is responsible for: * 18 Population Research Centres (PRCs) at six universities and six other institutions across 17 states * National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW), Delhi * International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai * Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow

Department of Health Research

The Department of Health Research (DHR) is responsible for formulation, support, coordination and promotion of biomedical research in India * Indian Council of Medical Research **

National Institute of Nutrition The National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) is an Indian public health, nutrition and translational research centre located in Hyderabad, India. The institute is one of the oldest research centres in India, and the largest centre, under the India ...

(NIN), Hyderabad **

National Animal Resource Facility for Biomedical Research The National Animal Resource Facility for Biomedical Research is an Indian Biomedical research facility, and vivarium under the Indian Council of Medical Research. The new 33rd flagship institute of ICMR was founded in 2015, at Genome Valley in ...

(NARF-BR), Hyderabad **

National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis The National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT) is a tuberculosis research organization located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. NIRT carries out research on clinical, bacteriological as well as behavioural and epidemiological aspects of tuber ...

(NIRT), Chennai **

National Institute of Epidemiology The National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE) is a medical research organisation located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. NIE conducts research including interventional studies, disease modelling and health systems, conducts epidemiological investigations ...

(NIE), Chennai ** National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research (NICPR), Noida **

National Institute of Malaria Research The National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR), New Delhi, is one of the research institution of Indian Council of Medical Research under Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, established in ...

(NIMR), Delhi ** Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (RMRIMS), Patna **

National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health National Institute For Research in Reproductive and Child Health (NIRRCH), is a Research institute of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). It was previously known as the Institute of Research in Reproduction. It was established in 1970 ...

(NIRRH), Mumbai ** National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune ** National Institute of Traditional Medicine (NITM),

Belagavi Belgaum (ISO: ''Bēḷagāma''; also Belgaon and officially known as Belagavi) is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka located in its northern part along the Western Ghats. It is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous Belagavi ...

** Microbial Containment Complex (MCC), Pune **

National AIDS Research Institute The National AIDS Research Institute (abbreviated to NARI) is a research institute, run by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the apex body in India for the formulation, coordination and promotion of biomedical research. It was founded in ...

(NARI), Pune ** National Institute of Occupational Health (NIOH),

Ahmedabad Ahmedabad ( ; Gujarati: Amdavad ) is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per t ...

** National Institute of Pathology (NIP), Delhi ** National Institute of Medical Statistics (NIMS), Delhi ** Vector Control Research Centre (VCRC), Puducherry ** National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED), Kolkata ** National Institute for Research in Tribal Health (NIRTH), Jabalpur ** National Center for Disease Informatics and Research (NCDIR),

Bengaluru Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

** Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Center (BMHRC), Bhopal ** National Institute for Research in Environmental Health (NIREH), Bhopal ** National JALMA Institute for Leprosy & Other Mycobacterial Diseases (NJILOMD), Agra ** Centre for Research in Medical Entomology (CRME), Madurai ** National Institute of Immunohaemotology (NIIH), Mumbai ** Enterovirus Research Centre (ERC), Mumbai ** Genetic Research Centre (GRC), Mumbai **

National Institute for Implementation Research on Non-Communicable Diseases The National Institute for Implementation Research in Non Communicable Diseases, Jodhpur came into existence on 07th December 2019. The institute is located in Jodhpur and it replaces the erstwhile Desert Medicine Research Centre. The institute con ...

(NIIRNCD), Jodhpur ** Regional Medical Research Center (RMRC),

Port Blair Port Blair () is the capital city of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory of India in the Bay of Bengal. It is also the local administrative sub-division (''tehsil'') of the islands, the headquarters for the district of South And ...

** Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC), Gorakhpur ** Regional Medical Research Center (RMRC), Bhubaneswar ** Regional Medical Research Centre, Dibrugarh ** ICMR Virus Unit (IVU), Kolkata ** Institute of Reproductive Medicine (IRM), Kolkata

Cabinet Ministers

List of ministers of state

References

External links

Official website

Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH), Official website

National Health Portal
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