Officers will have to undertake best of their efforts for cent percent achievement of target of mother and infant mortality rate. A scheme has also chalked out to constitute Healthy Village Sentinel Teams in the State. This was stated by Principal Secretary Health Praveer Krishna here on Friday.
He was addressing a state-level orientation workshop on maternal and infant health security. State Director of National Rural Health Mission M Geeta, Director Health Dr Sanjay Goyal, experts from New Delhi, district chief medical and health officers and senior health officers were present on the occasion. Praveer Krishna said that each Healthy Village Sentinel Team will comprise a senior health officers and 15 field level health and ASHA workers. Each team will have powers for expenditure upto Rs 1 lakh.
These teams will work by considering 50 thousand Village Health Centres as axis. The teams will work as important link of Mamta Abhiyan. The Principal Secretary said that free medicines, paramedical tests, transportation and food facilities are being provided to the poor as part of expansion of health facilities in the State. Strict action should be taken against the officials committing negligence in these works.
Those doing outstanding works will be rewarded by the department. The Principal Secretary said that district hospital is an important unit for medical treatment. It should be ensured that in district hospitals patients are treated properly and from there no case is referred to other hospitals. He said that it is necessary for reducing maternal and infant mortality rates that doctors identify high-risk delivery cases at initial stage and ensure proper treatment. He asked officers instead of cover up deaths due to any reason, lack of efforts should be identified and precaution is exercised in future.
At the workshop, discussions were also held on ways to reduce maternal and infant mortality rates. It was informed that work in this direction is being undertaken on high priority in 17 districts identified as weak in this respect. These include Raisen, Tikamgarh, Sidhi, Singrauli, Sagar, Damoh, Satna, Dindori, Shahdol, Anuppur, Umaria, Chhatarpur, Panna, Barwani, Mandla, Jhabua and Alirajpur.