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Hello Jammu News at 5:40:00 PM 0

New Delhi, July 24: India has achieved remarkable feat in arresting maternal and infant mortality rates and would surpass SDG goals of reducing maternal mortality to 70 per lakh live births by 2025 instead of the target of 2030, Union Health Minister J P Nadda said today.

The maternal mortality rate (MMR) per lakh live births has reduced to 130 in the country while there has been significant improvement in checking infant mortality rate (IMR) deaths, the minister said during Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha.

"I am happy to share with the House that our MMR, our IMR and under five mortality has declined faster than the world pace. If we talk about MDGs, according to the 2014-15 records, the decline has been 77 per cent as against global 43 per cent," Nadda said.

He asserted, "We have declined by 37 points that is per lakh live births. 167 was the mortality which is now 130. We have attained the position where we have gone far away than the MDG (millennium development goals). By 2025 we will be able to surpass the SDG (sustainable development goals) also."

He said states like Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra have showed significance performance in this.

To a query whether 707 women at Dehradun received due amount under the Janani Suraksha Yojna (JSY), the Minister said he was not aware of this.

JSY was launched with the objective of reducing maternal and neonatal mortality by promoting institutional delivery.

He said low performing states are Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Rajasthan, Odisha and Jammu and Kashmir.

"Cash assistance is also provided to BPL/SC/ST women of low and high performing states delivering in accredited private institutions," he said and added that BPL pregnant women, who prefer to deliver at home, are entitled to a cash assistance of Rs 500 per delivery.

In reply to another query, he said the Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Mission is to provide health assurance/insurance of Rs 5 lakh per family to 10.74 crore poor, deprived, rural families and identified occupational category of urban workers' families as per the Socio Economic Caste Census (SECC). (PTI)
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Hello Jammu News at 1:08:00 PM 0


Kolkata, Apr 7: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said the state has made good progress in health infrastructure development.
On the occasion of World Health Day, she tweeted, ' Today is World Health Day. At government hospitals and health centres in Bengal, we provide free treatment to all. Medicines and diagnostic procedures are available at discounted rates. We have made good progress in health infrastructure development. '
' Maternal and neonatal health has been our special focus. As a result, infant mortality rate (IMR) has come down to 25 from 32. Institutional delivery rate has increased from 65 per cent to 95% in the last six years. We reiterate our commitment to ensuring health for all, ' she said.
She introduced the hugely popularly Swasthya Sathi Scheme in 2016. 
The notification for the group insurance scheme was issued on February 25 of that year. Almost all State Government employees, including part-time and contractual workers, have been included in this scheme.
Like many other schemes, Swasthya Sathi is entirely information technology (IT)-based. It is a paperless, cashless, smart card-based scheme. 
Online e-health records (e-HR) are captured and kept accessible for future reference.
The scheme has enrolled 44.5 lakh government employees and their families so far, who have been provided 64KB smart cards. 
So far, 96,088 patients have availed of this cashless healthcare benefit scheme from the network of about 850 hospitals and nursing homes in the state.
The total estimate approved by the Finance Department for the group insurance scheme is Rs 1,363.72 crore.
Bengal has also performed remarkably under the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY). The scheme is active in all the districts. 
The number of beneficiaries who have availed healthcare using the RSBY Smart Cards is 2,86,027. UNI
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Hello Jammu News at 12:18:00 PM 0


Kolkata, Apr 7: In terms of health initiatives for mothers and children, Bengal has been playing a leading role in the country. 
Mother and Child Hub (MCH) is a unique concept in this respect, being conceptualised by none other than Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is also the Health Minister. 
Then, at 25, Bengal has the lowest infant mortality rate (IMR) in India. Waiting Hut is another unique concept, which has been taken up as a model by the Central Government.
Seven Mother and Child Hubs (MCH) are providing yeoman service at Uluberia sub-divisional Hospital, Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital, Nadia District Hospital, Bankura Sammilani Medical College and Hospital, Malda Medical College and Hospital, Jalpaiguri District Hospital and Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata.
The MCH at MJN Hospital in Cooch Behar is nearing completion. Another two MCHs are coming up at Canning in South 24 Parganas district and at Anupnagar in Murshidabad district.
For providing options for safe delivery to those mothers who stay in areas too far for accessing hospitals, the State Government has constructed fully manned and properly equipped Waiting Huts. Waiting Huts are functional under the jurisdictions of the rural hospitals (RH) in Gosaba, Madhabnagar (both South 24 Parganas district), Khulna (North 24 Parganas) and Chakulia (Uttar Dinajpur), Tufanganj Subdivisional Hospital (Cooch Behar), block primary health centres (BPHC) in Mahisail, Shaktipur (both in Murshidabad), Ratua (Malda) and Teghari (Hooghly) and, and Rampara Chanchara Primary Health Centre (Dakshin Dinajpur). 
The one at Uttar Latabari in Alipurduar district would be functional soon.
Institutional delivery in the state has increased from a meagre 65 per cent in2010 to 95 per cent in 2017.
Immunisation at present covers 94 per cent of the children of Bengal, and the government is steadily marching towards 100 per cent immunisation.
A comprehensive upgrading of maternal, newborn and paediatric services have been undertaken at 68 High Case Load Faculties at the tertiary and secondary tiers, that is, those with an annual delivery load of more than 3,000. 
The upgrading, undertaken at an estimated cost of Rs 132.66 crore, includes the facilities of labour rooms, operation theatres, toilets, and power backups and drinking water at primary health centres (PHC), community health centres (CHC), subdivisional hospitals (SDH), state general hospitals (SGH) and rural hospitals (RH).
Bengal has achieved infant mortality rate (IMR) of 25 per 1,000 live births, which is much below the national average of 34.
In order to achieve the IMR of 25, 68 Sick Newborn Care Units (SNCU) and 307 Sick Newborn Stabilisation Units (SNSU) have been made functional.
Eleven Paediatric Intensive Care Units (PICU) are being augmented and four are being set up at 13 medical colleges including Dr B C Roy Post Graduate Institute of Paediatric Sciences and Chittaranjan Seva Sadan in Kolkata. UNI
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