Maternal Health Programme
Objective & STRATEGIES -:
Objectives :
Addressing the health status of the women during pregnancy, child birth and the postpartum period is an important step to reduce maternal mortality. Improving maternal health is one of the eight United Nations’ Millennium Developmental Goals, targeting a reduction of 75% in the number of women dying during pregnancy and childbirth by 2015.
Strategies:
- Identification of High Risk in Pregnant women during antenatal registrations and subsequent checkups by the MO.
- Effective coverage and online monitoring using tablet PCs for Antenatal registration, Public Institutional Deliveries and Postnatal visits
- Strengthening of Delivery points: Improvement of labor rooms in high delivery load facilities and in remote areas.
Ongoing major intervention programmes on maternal health in the state include -:
- Lakshay
Rational positioning of Specialists in the referral hospitals (FRUs).
- Ensuring referral transport (108 & Talli bida Express) is made available to Pregnant women, Mothers and Infants.
- Creation of additional blood banks and blood storage centers at FRUs 12 Exclusive Maternal & Child Hospitals (100-150 bedded) are planned in at the District level Improving the quality of care during delivery by ensuring the use of Safe Childbirth Checklists (SCC) and Partographs.
- Skill Labs will be established to strengthen the maternal health trainings.
- Refurbishment of Labor rooms is sanctioned in 129 locations identified as Delivery points in 24 * 7 Institutions under 13th finance & NABARD and the LDR concept will be incorporated in them