Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will inaugurate a one-day national dialogue here on June 18. Public Health and Family Welfare Minister Narottam Mishra will be special guest on the occasion. National Rural Health Mission Director Anuradha Gupta and Joint Secretary RCH Rakesh Kumar will also participate in the dialogue about integrated scheme on birth, mother and infant mortality and child & adolescent health.
Necessity has been felt for intensive efforts in areas weak in respect of health services for reducing maternity, infant and child mortality rates in the State. For this, 17 districts of the State have been selected under Composite Health Index including Raisen, Tikamgarh, Sidhi, Anuppur, Umaria, Chhatarpur, Panna, Barwani, Mandla, Jhabua and Alirajpur.
Coordinated efforts will be made by the State Government in tandem with organisations working in health sector for improving health services and index. Dialogue will be held to reduce maternal mortality to 108 per lakh by year 2017 in the State, mortality rate of live born infants to 25 per thousand and crude birth rate and live birth to 2.1 per cent. Collectors and Chief Medical and Health Officers of these 17 districts will make presentations on challenges in their respective districts.
Union Government’s health officers will discuss status of RMNCHA, densification in districts and roadmap for coordinated technical cooperation. Presentations will also be given on strategy for birth, mother & infant mortality and child and adolescent health, scorecard and innovations by Deputy Commissioner of Union Health and Family Ministry, New Delhi Dr Ajay Khera and higher officers of DFID, UNICEF and UNFPA. The participants will discuss health issues pertaining to districts and State.