Vimukti organized training on
Antenatal care on 10th of September 2016 at Malkapur village with
the collaboration of Women and child Welfare office Manvi. The
training was done under the guidelines of the new scheme, which
provides for improvement in prenatal and maternal health, in the
Government hospitals. As per the guidelines issued under the
National Health mission (NHM), the ninth of every month would be
dedicated to providing treatment to expectant mothers. Ground- level
staff such as ASha(Accredited social health Activists) workers
should get the details of pregnant women and do a follow up of their
treatment. Lab investigations would be conducted and counseling
offered to pregnant women, individually or in groups. Resource
person exalted that existing facilities in the hospital should be
used, the main aim is to bring down maternal mortality rate. Under
this scheme, women will be counseled on the importance of nutrition,
institutional delivery, care during the pregnancy, breastfeeding,
family planning, mother child protection card and also green
stickers are added to the cards for women with no risk factors, red
stickers for those under high –risk pregnancy, blue stickers for
women with pregnancy – induced hypertension and yellow stickers for
those with co-morbid conditions such as diabetes and hypothyroidism.
Other issues were discussed. 18 types of different low cost
nutritious food prepared and exhibited in the program. 172 women
were benefited from the program.
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