Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 11: One day Orientation workshop on New Maternal Health Guidelines like Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA), National Iron Plus Initiative, Community Based Distribution of Misoprostol for Prevention of Post Partum Haemorrhag. was held at State Health Society, National Health Mission, Nagrota, Jammu.
The workshop was inaugurated by Commissioner/ Secretary Health and Medical Education and he said that department should focus on strengthening of mother and child healthcare delivery for reducing the maternal and infant mortality in the State. He directed the officers/ officials of the department to reach to the grass root level by creating awareness regarding various schemes benefitting the common masses.
He took a strong notice for non-reporting of Maternal & Child Deaths and directed the Director Health Services, Jammu and Mission Director, NHM J&K to take punitive action against the officer who fail to report such deaths. He also directed that graph of delivery events (Partograph) should be maintained for each delivery to justify the referrals & excess Caesarean Sections.
Dr. Mohan Singh, Mission Director, NHM J&K while welcoming the participants thanked the worthy Secretary for sparing his valuable time in attending this important workshop and made a detailed presentation for guiding Block Medical Officers in better monitoring of key indicators from HMIS portal. He stressed on all the officers to monitor the performance indicators of all the programmes by coordinating with programme management units for timely improvement in the health care delivery system.
Detailed presentation on various guidelines of Maternal Health was given by Dr Harjeet Rai, Divisional Nodal Officer, NHM, Jammu and Dr Om Kumar, Programme Manager, Dr. Arshad Nazir, Assistant Programme Manager, Maternal Health and Tapas Chatterjee, State RMNCH+A Coordinator.
Special thrust was given on Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan, which has been launched by Prime Minister on 9th June, 2016, for improving the quality and coverage of Antenatal care, with participation of private doctors to provide voluntary services on 9th of every month.
The workshop was attended by Dr. Gurjeet Singh, Director Health Services, Jammu; Dr. Baldev Raj Sharma, Director Family Welfare, Deputy Chief Medical Officers, Block Medical Officers, RMNCH+A Consultants/ Coordinators and District ASHA Coordinators from all the districts of the Jammu division and Programme Managers from State Health Society, J&K. |
