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Essential Health Care : Essential Health Care is the core component of our health programme. It is an integrated package of preventive and basic curative and referral care, all aimed at improving the health and nutritional status of poor people, especially women and children. It has seven components: Health and nutrition education; water and sanitation; family planning; immunisation; pregnancy-related care; basic curative services; and tuberculosis control. In some areas, it includes additional activities such as services for presbyopia, pneumonia, malaria and promotion of safe delivery practices. It also collaborate national programmes such as Vitamin-A supplementation and family planning. / Micro-Health Insurance : The Health Micro Insurance scheme is developing a sustainable community health financing model to increase the community’s access to health treatments and safeguard household health security for the poor. Around 950 families were enrolled in the Micro-Health Insurance project in 2008 and the total cost of recovery is 34 per cent.