Women and Child Development Minister Maya Singh has said that Swagatam laxmi Yojana has created an atmosphere in favour of daughters and now common people are welcoming girl children in the State.
Singh reached Jai Prakash Hospital here on Sunday, welcomed newborn girls with bouquets and congratulated their parents. Commissioner Women’s Empowerment Kalpana Shrivastava and hospital Superintendent Dr Veena Sinha were also present on the occasion.
The Minister said that Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan deserved praise that his daughter-oriented schemes changed the scenario in the State and their pleasant results started to come. She was glad to know that 13 girl and 13 boy children were born in maternity ward and newborn intensive care unit of Jai Prakash Hospital. She said that the National Health Survey has also shown that number of daughters is increasing among newborns in the state.
Singh met mothers of the 13 girl children in women’s ward of the hospital and enquired about their health. She welcomed their newborn girl children with bouquets and distributed sweets. She also congratulated mothers of boys. Smt. Singh also went round newborn intensive care units where 12 girl children are admitted. She also inspected mother milk bank from where milk is administered to the infants who cannot be breastfed by their mothers. She said that mother’s milk is very important in a child’s life. It not only saves children’s lives, but also keeps them healthy. She appealed that every mother should feed only her milk to infants from 2 hours after birth till 6 months.
The Women and Child Development Minister inspected the prenatal and post-natal diet given to women. She expressed happiness that laddus of gur (jaggery) made with 2 dry fruits are given daily to every mother after delivery in the hospital.