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dated May 19, 1958: National Health Service

Prime Minister Nehru, inaugurating a seminar on the Contributory Health Service of the Central Government at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on May 18 asked doctors and other medical personnel to take to work in villages with “a missionary spirit” and function as “comrades, colleagues and friends” of the people. Mr. Nehru said that the big problem of taking medical help to villages could only be tackled by going in for “simpler buildings and less expensive equipment” for rural hospitals. Mr. Nehru commended the approach of the scheme which covered about 90,000 Central Government employees, and said that the medical facilities open to relatively few persons should be spread towards the objective of providing free treatment to all the people of India. Every attempt should be made to extend medical services to employees whether in Government or in industrial undertakings and thus lay the broad foundations of a free health service for the whole country.

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