Things are slowly looking up: a scheme launched by UPA-1 in 2005 to beef up rural health services has led to more than 100,000 new healthcare workers

Things are slowly looking up: a scheme launched by UPA-1 in 2005 to beef up rural health services has led to more than 100,000 new healthcare workers entering the system after 15 years of stagnation. States like Assam have come up with innovative ideas to train paramedics and give them incentives to work in villages, rather than open clinics in towns.