Dimapur, July 1 -- Nagaland Health & Family Welfare Minister P. Paiwang Konyak has appealed to the Centre to review the National Health Mission (NHM) resource allocation formula, suggesting greater weightage be given to terrain, remoteness, population dispersion, and the minimum cost of sustaining essential health services, instead of relying predominantly on population.

Addressing the 16th Conference of the Central Council of Health & Family Welfare in New Delhi on Monday, Konyak called for the adoption of region-specific budgeting under centrally sponsored schemes to reflect higher construction and logistics costs in hilly and remote states, an official statement said on Tuesday.

The conference was attended by Union Health & Family We...