Minister_of_Health_and_Family_Welfare_(India)

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Cabinet ministry of Government of India

"MoHFW" redirects here. For MoHFW of Bangladesh, see Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Bangladesh).

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, also known by its abbreviation MoHFW, is an Indian government ministry charged with health policy in India. It is also responsible for all government programs relating to family planning in India.^[2]^[3]

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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Agency overview
Branch of Government of India
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Formed	1947 (77 years ago) (1947)
Jurisdiction	Government of India
Headquarters	Cabinet Secretariat Raisina Hill, New Delhi 28°36′50″N 77°12′32″E
Annual budget	₹90,658 crore (US$11 billion) (2024-25)
Ministers responsible	Mansukh L. Mandaviya Bharati Pawar, Minister of State for Health S. P. Singh Baghel, Minister of State for Health
Agency executive	Sudhansh Panth, IAS, Health Secretary Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary
Website	https://main.mohfw.gov.in/ ^[1]

The Minister of Health and Family Welfare holds cabinet rank as a member of the Council of Ministers. The current minister is Mansukh L. Mandaviya, while the current Minister of State for health (MOS: assistant to Minister i.e. currently assistant to Mansukh L. Mandaviya) are Bharati Pawar and S. P. Singh Baghel .^[4]

Since 1955 the Ministry regularly publishes the Indian Pharmacopoeia through the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC), an autonomous body for setting standards for drugs, pharmaceuticals and healthcare devices and technologies in India.^[5]

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.^[6]

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:^{[citation needed]}

Lady Hardinge Medical College
Vardhman Mahavir Medical College
Safdarjung Hospital
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital
Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital
National Centre for Disease Control
All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health
Central Research Institute, Kasauli
Central Institute of Psychiatry Ranchi

Department of Health

The Department of Health deals with health care, including awareness campaigns, immunisation campaigns, preventive medicine, and public health. Bodies under the administrative control of this department are:^{[citation needed]}

National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) (see HIV/AIDS in India)
14 National Health Programmes
- National AIDS Control Programme (AIDS) Department Of Aids Control (National AIDS Control Organisation) (Details About Aids)
- National Cancer Control Programme (cancer) (since 1985)^[7]
- 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, cardiovascular disease, stroke)
- National Programme on Climate Change and Human Health (Cimate change)
- Revised National TB Control Programme (tuberculosis)
- Universal Immunisation Programme
- National Tele Mental Health Programme - Tele MANAS^[8](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, pediatrics, information, education and communications; cooperation with NGOs and international aid groups; and rural health services. The Department of Family Welfare is responsible for:^{[citation needed]}

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 ^[9]^[10]

Indian Council of Medical Research
- National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Hyderabad
- National Animal Resource Facility for Biomedical Research (NARF-BR), Hyderabad
- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT), Chennai
- National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE), Chennai
- National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research (NICPR), Noida
- National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR), Delhi
- Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (RMRIMS), Patna
- National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health (NIRRH), Mumbai
- National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune
- National Institute of Traditional Medicine (NITM), Belagavi
- Microbial Containment Complex (MCC), Pune
- National AIDS Research Institute (NARI), Pune
- National Institute of Occupational Health (NIOH), Ahmedabad
- 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
- 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 (NIIRNCD), Jodhpur
- Regional Medical Research Center (RMRC), Port Blair
- 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

List of ministers

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No	Name	Term of office			Prime Minister	Political party
1	Rajkumari Amrit Kaur	15 August 1947	16 April 1957	9 years, 244 days	Jawaharlal Nehru	Indian National Congress
2	D. P. Karmakar (MoS)	17 April 1957	9 April 1962	4 years, 357 days	Jawaharlal Nehru
3	Sushila Nayar (MoS)	10 April 1962	13 March 1967	4 years, 337 days	Indira Gandhi
4	Sripati Chandrasekhar (MoS)	13 March 1967	14 November 1967	246 days
5	Satya Narayan Sinha	14 November 1967	14 February 1969	1 year, 92 days
6	Kodardas Kalidas Shah	14 February 1969	19 May 1971	2 years, 94 days
7	Uma Shankar Dikshit	19 May 1971	5 February 1973	1 year, 262 days
8	R. K. Khadilkar (MoS)	5 February 1973	9 November 1973	277 days
9	Karan Singh	9 November 1973	24 March 1977	3 years, 135 days
10	Raj Narain	28 March 1977	1 July 1978	1 year, 95 days	Morarji Desai	Janata Party
11	Morarji Desai	1 July 1978	24 January 1979	207 days	Morarji Desai	Janata Party
12	Rabi Ray	28 July 1979	14 January 1980	170 days	Charan Singh	Janata Party (Secular)
13	B. Shankaranand	16 January 1980	31 December 1984	4 years, 350 days	Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi	Indian National Congress
14	Mohsina Kidwai	31 December 1984	24 June 1986	1 year, 175 days	Rajiv Gandhi
15	P. V. Narasimha Rao	24 June 1986	14 February 1988	1 year, 235 days
16	Motilal Vora	14 February 1988	24 January 1989	345 days
17	Ram Niwas Mirdha	24 January 1989	4 July 1989	161 days
18	Rafique Alam (Independent Charge)	4 July 1989	2 December 1989	151 days
19	Nilamani Routray	6 December 1989	23 April 1990	138 days	V. P. Singh	Janata Dal
20	Rasheed Masood (Independent Charge)	23 April 1990	10 November 1990	201 days	V. P. Singh	Janata Dal
21	Shakeelur Rehman	21 November 1990	20 February 1991	91 days	Chandra Shekhar	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
22	Chandra Shekhar	20 February 1991	21 June 1991	121 days	Chandra Shekhar	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
23	M. L. Fotedar	21 June 1991	17 January 1993	1 year, 210 days	P. V. Narasimha Rao	Indian National Congress
24	B. Shankaranand	18 January 1993	22 December 1994	1 year, 338 days
25	P. V. Narasimha Rao	23 December 1994	11 June 1995	171 days
26	A. R. Antulay	11 June 1995	16 May 1996	340 days
27	Sartaj Singh	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Janata Party
28	H. D. Deve Gowda	1 June 1996	29 June 1996	28 days	H. D. Deve Gowda	Janata Dal
29	Saleem Iqbal Shervani	29 June 1996	9 June 1997	345 days	H. D. Deve Gowda
30	Inder Kumar Gujral	9 June 1997	19 March 1998	283 days	Inder Kumar Gujral
31	Dalit Ezhilmalai (Independent Charge)	19 March 1998	14 August 1999	1 year, 148 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Pattali Makkal Katchi
32	A. K. Patel (Independent Charge)	16 August 1999	13 October 1999	58 days		Bharatiya Janata Party
33	N. T. Shanmugam (Independent Charge)	13 October 1999	27 May 2000	227 days		Pattali Makkal Katchi
34	C. P. Thakur	27 May 2000	1 July 2002	2 years, 35 days		Bharatiya Janata Party
35	Shatrughan Sinha	1 July 2002	29 January 2003	212 days
36	Sushma Swaraj	29 January 2003	22 May 2004	1 year, 114 days
37	Anbumani Ramadoss	22 May 2004	29 March 2009	4 years, 311 days	Manmohan Singh	Pattali Makkal Katchi
38	Panabaka Lakshmi (Independent Charge)	29 March 2009	22 May 2009	54 days		Indian National Congress
39	Ghulam Nabi Azad	28 May 2009	26 May 2014	4 years, 363 days		Indian National Congress
40	Harsh Vardhan	26 May 2014	9 November 2014	167 days	Narendra Modi	Bharatiya Janata Party
41	Jagat Prakash Nadda	9 November 2014	30 May 2019	4 years, 202 days
(40)	Harsh Vardhan	30 May 2019	7 July 2021	2 years, 38 days
42	Mansukh Mandaviya	7 July 2021	Incumbent	2 years, 300 days

List of ministers of state

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Ministers of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Minister of state	Term		Years	Prime Minister	Political Party
Faggan Singh Kulaste	5 July 2016	3 September 2017	1 year, 60 days	Narendra Modi	Bharatiya Janata Party
Anupriya Patel	5 July 2016	30 May 2019	2 years, 329 days		Apna Dal (Sonelal)
Ashwini Kumar Choubey	3 September 2017	7 July 2021	3 years, 307 days		Bharatiya Janata Party
Bharati Pawar	7 July 2021	Incumbent	2 years, 300 days
S. P. Singh Baghel	18 May 2023	Incumbent	350 days

References

[1]
"Health & Family Welfare| National Portal of India".
[2]
"Suspension of anti-diabetes drug takes industry by surprise". The Hindu. June 27, 2013. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
[3]
"Let the science decide", The Hindu, July 24, 2013, retrieved 1 August 2013
[4]
"Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan resigns, Mansukh Mandaviya takes charge". 8 July 2021. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
[5]
"Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission". ipc.nic.in. Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
[6]
"Departments :: Ministry of Health & Family Welfare".
[7]
Rath, Goura Kishor (Winter 2014). "National cancer control and registration program in India". Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology. 34 (4): 288–90. doi:10.4103/0971-5851.144991. PMC 4264276. PMID 25538407 – via National Institutes of Health.
[8]
"Tele MANAS". telemanas.mohfw.gov.in. Retrieved 2023-10-20.
[9]
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India., Department of Health Research. "About us". www.dhrschemes.in/. Department of Health Research. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
[10]
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India., Department of Health Research. "GRANT-IN-AID SCHEME FOR INTER-SECTORAL CONVERGENCE & COORDINATION FOR PROMOTION AND GUIDANCE ON HEALTH RESEARCH". www.dhrschemes.in/. Department of Health Research. Retrieved 2 June 2021.

External links

Official website ^[1]
Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH), Official website
National Health Portal (Available in English, Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil and Punjabi)

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"Health & Family Welfare| National Portal of India".

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