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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Centre pat for mother care by ASRP Mukesh

Centre pat for mother care by ASRP Mukesh

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published Published on Jan 4, 2012   modified Modified on Jan 4, 2012

-The Telegraph

 

Jharkhand’s flagship maternal and child health scheme has attracted the Centre’s attention and may now be replicated in other states.

Mamata Vahan was launched in July 2010 by the state wing of the National Rural Health Mission as a free referral transport service to ferry expectant mothers to hospitals, aimed at encouraging institutionalised deliveries to reduce mother and child mortality. Launched as a pilot project in Ranchi — across Mandar, Chanho and Ratu blocks — it proved to be a winner from the word go. Today, Mamata Vahan ambulances are rolling across all 24 districts.

It impressed the 10-member team from the Union ministry of health and family welfare (immunisation wing), which was in Jharkhand in the first week of December to inspect the state’s health services.

The team asked Jharkhand health officials to share details of Mamata Vahan and evinced interest in replicating the model in other states in 2012-13.

“Yes, it is a kind of achievement for us,” said National Rural Health Mission (Jharkhand) director Aradhana Patnaik, one of the key figures behind the success of the scheme. “As I am not the overall in-charge of state health services, let me limit my comments to Mamata Vahan. The central team members said, and I quote, ‘it’s an innovative, simple and easy-to-implement scheme which other states can be asked to adopt’ and we, on our part, are preparing the scheme’s detailed overview to send the Centre,” said Patnaik.

In 2009, the rate of mother/child death in Jharkhand was 312 per one lakh live births. In 2010, it came down to 261. The figures of 2011, once they are compiled, will evaluate Mamata Vahan’s success in concrete terms. Though the final figures will come only by January-end, Patnaik said the “response is tremendous”.

She ticked the reasons that led to villagers embracing the scheme.

“Orthodox beliefs and lack of transport led to rural pregnant women delivering at home. But the moment we addressed the issue of transport, orthodoxy started losing its hold,” Patnaik said.

“And let’s not overlook the sahiyas, who convinced families to opt for the service in the first place. People realised hospitals ensure safe deliveries to a large extent. Other motivational factors were free medicines, immunisation, hospital food for mother and child,” reasoned Patnaik.

The novelty factor also piqued interest. Villagers are required to dial call centres at the district level to seek the transport service. The white ambulance with the Mamata Vahan logo arrives with a compounder and sahiya to take the woman — and her family members — to the nearest health centre.

Efforts are also on to upgrade the service.

“We want to give our delivery mechanism stronger and more professional. For this, we are hiring our own staff to handle calls. Earlier, this was outsourced to NGOs. A separate grievance cell is getting formed. We are working on a specialised software to track and monitor calls and store online data,” said Patnaik.

But right now, most health officials are busy collecting figures about the service from districts, even from remote areas like Godda and Sahebganj.

“District officials are compiling figures. But I can tell you roughly that in less than a month of our launch, we touched 180 deliveries in Ranchi district. There should be around 800 deliveries through Mamata Vahan in Ranchi alone. We expect similar figures elsewhere too,” Patnaik said.

The Telegraph, 4 January, 2012, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120104/jsp/frontpage/story_14959485.jsp


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