To improve the healthcare facilities in the State, Haryana Government has bagged three prizes in the categories of Maternal Health Survival, Newborn Survival and Population Stabilisation.
Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Friday said that these prizes were given away at the second national summit on ‘Good and Replicable Practices and Innovations in Public Healthcare System’ in Shimla recently.
He said that the state ranked third in all the above mentioned three categories. The prize for Maternal Health Survival was given away on the basis of percentage change in maternal mortality ratio. The prize for Newborn Survival was based on percentage change in neonatal mortality ratio and the prize was also bagged in Population Stabilisation and was based on reduction in total fertility rate.
The Minister said that even as the maternal mortality rate has declined from 146 to 127 the newborn death rate has also came down from 38 to 26 and total fertility rate also fell from 2.3 to 2.2 in the state.
A team comprising Principal Secretary, Health, RR Jowel; Mission Director, National Health Mission, Dr S. Narayanan; Deputy Director Dr Amit Phogat, Deputy Director, RT and IT and Dr Kamana Goel had represented Haryana at
the National Summit.
Vij said that during the summit, Haryana also presented two posters on Maternal and Child Death Reporting System and Pre Service Education for Nursing and Midwifery.
He added that a number of initiatives are introduced under National Health Mission to improve maternal and child health services in Haryana and it is important to have a robust recording system to monitor changes in maternal and child mortality.