Uttarakhand: Pregnant women will soon get the facility of birth waiting home in the state – Dr. R. Rajesh Kumar
The state will soon get the facility of birth venting home for pregnant women, Dr. R. Rajesh Kumar, Secretary Health and Mission Director, National Health Mission recently announced the National Health Mission (NHM) Uttarakhand by the Ministry of Health, Government of India. The decision was taken in the meeting of Dr. R. Rajesh Kumar said that under the Maternal Health Program, the Government of India should approve the proposal to keep high risk pregnant women in birth waiting homes and working women hostels established in all 13 districts of the state before the expected date of delivery. given. Under the scheme, pregnant women living in remote areas will get timely medical care and pregnant women will be facilitated before delivery. Along with this, to encourage home delivery in institutional delivery, the Government of India has given approval for use in birth waiting homes in community health centers of hill districts of the state. This step will prove to be important in reducing the maternal and infant mortality rate.
Health Secretary Dr.R. Rajesh Kumar told that in the budget the districts Dehradun, Haridwar, Pauri, Udham Singh Nagar, Nainital have been approved for the facility of mobile TB vans and Truenet machines and the districts Almora, Bageshwar, Chamoli, Champawat, Pithoragarh, Rudraprayag, Tehri, Uttarkashi Has agreed to have a mobile medical unit with mobile X-ray, which will facilitate screening of TB patients. T.B. Approval has also been given by the Government of India for the facility of free travel for X-rays of patients suffering from diabetes and their families. In order to reduce the problem of malnutrition in children between the age of 1 month to 05 years, approval has been given to Nutrition Rehabilitation Center (NRC) Pithoragarh, under which malnourished and highly malnourished children are admitted according to the norms. Medical and nutritional therapeutic care will be provided.
It was told by the secretary that in order to make the state cataract backlog free, approval has been given to provide mobile van facility to Tehri and Pithoragarh districts for cataract screening. Along with this, approval has been given for eye surgery in the sub-district hospital, Mussoorie.
Dr. R. Rajesh Kumar told that telemedicine service for the hilly areas of Uttarakhand is important in saving the lives of the people. Seeing its importance, a proposal was sent to the Government of India, which has been approved. In this, after their duty, doctors will give suggestions and advice to the public through tele-consultation from 3 pm to 6 pm, for which doctors will be given an incentive of Rs 150 for seeing each patient.
Apart from this, A.N.M. And approval has been given for training of basic life support to community health officers. NHM in the already existing building in Chamoli district. Office and training hall has been approved.
Apart from this, for better management of long queues in government hospitals, token facility has also been approved in 14 hospitals. Approval has also been passed for the recruitment of 100 percent vacant posts in the Community Health Center, Bhupatwala under the National Urban Health Mission.
