Madhya Pradesh has attained the top position in providing free checkup and treatment to the pregnant women under the Prime Minister Safe Motherhood campaign (PMSM).
Public Health and Family Welfare department’s Principal Secretary Gouri Singh said that this is an important initiative to bring down the maternal and infant mortality rate and to facilitate the women with better facilities.
Free check up camps would be organised on Monday, January 9 in all the district hospitals of the State. Free checkup and treatment camps would be organised 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.
Notably, free checkups camps are being conducted under this 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.
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 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 organized in state in the month of December and provided their voluntary services to the pregnant women.
Various women disease specialists, sonologists and pathologist would provide free services to the patients during the free checkup camp.