Women and men helping pregnant women at Guna's district hospital to get her down from trolley on which she came to the hospital to show to the medical doctor. (pic courtesy - anil gulati)
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Helping hands
Women and men helping pregnant women at Guna's district hospital to get her down from trolley on which she came to the hospital to show to the medical doctor. (pic courtesy - anil gulati)
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Concern over delivery deaths
Editorial, Central Chronicle, Nov 30, 2007
Despite of spending crores of rupees for improving the health of women, the continuing deaths of women, in the State, during delivery is a cause of concern. Answering a question in the State Vidhan Sabha, the Public Health Minister himself admitted that there were 3359 cases of mother-child death between the period January 1, 2006 and October 2007. Of these maximum 224 cases pertain to Shahdol. It may be noted that for publicity of National Rural Health Mission and RCH a whopping sum of Rs 8.36 crore was spent during the last two years. At the same time an amount of Rs 620.36 crore was allotted under National Rural Health Mission and RCH for the years 2006-07 and 2007-08. The break-up of deaths of women/kids at other places is- Guna 145, Shivpuri 105, Sidhi 169, Sagar 137, Jhabua 149, Dindori 138, Balaghat 135, Chhindwara 101 and Mandla 101. It is learnt that awareness is even now lacking in these places for performing deliveries at health centres. It is a matter of grave concern that even after spending Rs 8.5 crores in publicity of National Rural Health Mission and RCH during the years 2006-07 and 2007-08 the death rate could not be brought down. Hence it is essential that awareness be created in right earnest among the intended class to curb mother-child deaths. For this purpose, participation of literate people of villages and youths could be sought for. With rapid advancement in communication technologies and opening of health centres in rural areas, the maternal mortality could be minimised.
Despite of spending crores of rupees for improving the health of women, the continuing deaths of women, in the State, during delivery is a cause of concern. Answering a question in the State Vidhan Sabha, the Public Health Minister himself admitted that there were 3359 cases of mother-child death between the period January 1, 2006 and October 2007. Of these maximum 224 cases pertain to Shahdol. It may be noted that for publicity of National Rural Health Mission and RCH a whopping sum of Rs 8.36 crore was spent during the last two years. At the same time an amount of Rs 620.36 crore was allotted under National Rural Health Mission and RCH for the years 2006-07 and 2007-08. The break-up of deaths of women/kids at other places is- Guna 145, Shivpuri 105, Sidhi 169, Sagar 137, Jhabua 149, Dindori 138, Balaghat 135, Chhindwara 101 and Mandla 101. It is learnt that awareness is even now lacking in these places for performing deliveries at health centres. It is a matter of grave concern that even after spending Rs 8.5 crores in publicity of National Rural Health Mission and RCH during the years 2006-07 and 2007-08 the death rate could not be brought down. Hence it is essential that awareness be created in right earnest among the intended class to curb mother-child deaths. For this purpose, participation of literate people of villages and youths could be sought for. With rapid advancement in communication technologies and opening of health centres in rural areas, the maternal mortality could be minimised.
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Madhya Pradesh’s IMR and MMR still very high
Despite the figures of institutional deliveries for the current year in the state being quite impressive, Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) do not show the corresponding improvement. Furthermore, utter unavailability of specialist gynecologists and pediatricians in
In the current year, the rate of institutional delivery is 58 % as against 50.3% of 2006-07. The figures have constantly shown an improvement from year 2000-01 when it was a mere 26.2%. Cleary, the rate of institutional delivery has more than doubled since, if figures are anything to go by.
The figures do not show the institutional delivery in urban and rural areas separately and insiders say most of the institutional deliveries giving push to the figure are being done in urban areas. Second thing they reveal is that government has included private sector hospitals in its schemes to enhance institutional deliveries among below poverty line (BPL) mothers and pay them for each delivery. Most of these hospitals are in urban and semi-urban areas. "It's not necessary the data of institutional delivery provided by a certified hospital conducting free delivery of BPL mothers under a government scheme and receiving the due money from government is true," says an insider. "It might be exaggerated by certain means to claim more money from government."
Needless to mention, under the arrangement certified private hospitals are extending facilities of Janani Express Yojana, Janan Sahayogi Yojana and other health welfare schemes to card holders. Talking of rural areas, state is short of 478 PHCs and 188 CHCs as per a report of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of Government of India released on March 2006. To add to this, just 13 gynecologists and 12 pediatricians are working in 229 existing CHCs of the state.Around 216 gynecologists and 217 pediatricians are required in these health centers. State government's attempts to post specialists in rural areas have met with failure over the years and dais conducting traditional deliveries has been banned around a year ago, leaving villagers with no option but to go for totally unsafe, unprofessional delivery at home.
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