Department of Health and Family Welfare (Tamil Nadu)

Department of Health and Family Welfare of State of Tamil Nadu
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Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Tamil Nadu
Headquarters	Chennai
Employees	121,221 (2019)
Annual budget	₹15,773 crore (US$2.2 billion) (2020–21)
Minister responsible	M. Subramaniam, Minister for Health and Family Welfare Department;
Agency executives	J. Radhakrishnan, IAS, Principal Secretary; S. Natarajan, IAS, Joint Secretary; Sivagnanam, IAS, Joint Secretary;
Parent agency	Government of Tamil Nadu
Website	tnhealth.tn.gov.in

The Department of Health and Family Welfare of State of Tamil Nadu is a department of Government of Tamil Nadu responsible for ensuring access to basic public health services in Tamil Nadu. Its undertakings include National Health Mission – Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation, Medicinal Plant Farms and Herbal Medicine Corporation and Transplant Authority of Tamil Nadu.^[3]^[4] It is headquartered in Chennai.

Sub - Departments

Name	Website
National Rural Health Mission Tamil Nadu	http://www.nhm.tn.gov.in/
Tamil Nadu Health System Project(TNHSP)	http://www.tnhsp.org/
Directorate of Medical Education - List of Tamil Nadu Government's Medical Colleges	http://www.tnhealth.org/dme/medicaleducation.php
Directorate of Medical and Rural Health Services	http://www.tnhealth.org/dms/mrhs.php
Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine	http://www.tnhealth.org/dph/dphpm.php
Directorate of Indian Medicine and Homeopathy	http://www.tnhealth.org/imh/im.htm
Directorate of Family Welfare	http://www.tnhealth.org/dfw/dfw.php
Directorate of Drugs Control	https://web.archive.org/web/20121014124408/http://www.tnhealth.org/drugcontrol/
Tamil Nadu State Health Transport Department	https://web.archive.org/web/20121022142933/http://www.tnhealth.org/tshtd.htm
Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society	http://www.tnhealth.org/tsaids.htm
Tamil Nadu State Blindness Control Society	http://www.tnhealth.org/tsbcs.htm
DANIDA Health Care Project	https://web.archive.org/web/20121022145554/http://www.tnhealth.org/danida.htm
Department of Food Safety & Drug Administration (Food Safety Division)	https://web.archive.org/web/20121009133136/http://www.tnhealth.org/FoodSafety.htm

Name	Website
Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation Limited (TNMSC)	http://www.tnmsc.com/
Transplant Authority of Tamil Nadu (TRANSTAN)	https://transtan.tn.gov.in/
Medicinal Plant Farms and Herbal Medicine Corporation Ltd (TAMPCOL)	https://www.tn.gov.in/detail_contact/4807/5/

Ministers Health and Family Welfare (Tamilnadu)
Name	Portrait	Term of office
A. B. Shetty	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	13 April 1954	13 April 1957
Jothi Venkatachalam		1962	1963
S. J. Sadiq Pasha		6 March 1967	10 February 1969
V. R. Nedunchezhiyan		10 February 1969	4 January 1971
K. Anbazhagan		15 March 1971	31 January 1976
Dr. H.V.Hande		1977	1987
K. Ponmudy	File:Dr.K.Ponmudi.jpg	27 January 1989	30 January 1991
S. Muthusamy		24 June 1991	12 May 1996
Arcot N. Veeraswami		13 May 1996	13 May 2001
S. Semmalai		22 May 2001	2 June 2003
Thalavai Sundaram	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	3 June 2003	12 May 2006
M. R. K. Panneerselvam	File:MRK Pannerselvam.jpg	13 May 2006	15 May 2011
Dr. V.S.Vijay		16 May 2011	27 February 2013
K. C. Veeramani		28 February 2013	31 October 2013
Dr. C.Vijaya Baskar		1 November 2013	6 May 2021
M. Subramaniam	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	7 May 2021	Incumbent