Free checkup and treatment camps were organised on Monday for the pregnant women in various hospitals of the city under the Prime Minister Safe Motherhood campaign (PMSM).
National Health Mission (NHM), maternal health’s Deputy Director Dr Archana Mishra stated that Madhya Pradesh has attained the top position in providing free checkup and treatment to the pregnant women under PMSM.
Free checkups camps are being conducted under PMSM campaign for the pregnant women. Specialist doctors treat the pregnant women and conduct the free checkup on the 9th of every month. Private doctors also take part in the free check up camps.
Free checkup camps were organized on Monday in all the district hospitals of the state. Free checkup and treatment camps were organized in Jai Prakash Hospital, Sultania Zanana Hospital, Civil Hospital, Bairagarh, Katju Hospital, Indira Gandhi Hospital, Khushilal Sharma Ayurvedic Hospital and in Jawaharlal Nehru Gas Relief Hospital of the city under the PMSM campaign.
Various women disease specialists, sonologists and pathologist also provided free services to the patients during the free checkup camps at various hospitals.
Notably, as many as 61,095 pregnant women took part in the free check up and treatment camps in the month of December.
The number of participants in the camps is more than the number of participants of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Karnataka.
Madhya Pradesh has also attained the first position in the participation of private doctors in these free camps.
As many as 535 private doctors took part in the free checkup camps organised in state in the month of December and provided their voluntary services to the pregnant women.