To increase the knowledge and skill of midwives, Max India Foundation in collaboration with the State Health and Family Welfare Department started a special training programme here on Thursday.
Speaking on the occasion, Medical, Health and Family Welfare Minister Surendra Singh Negi said the aim of the programme was to ensure safe deliveries in remote areas of the State where services of doctors were not there.
He said Chief Minister Harish Rawat was the guiding spirit behind this drive. Negi said he had asked the Max India to help in the initiative as the Chief Minister was particularly sensitive towards the life saving measures for the new-born and their mothers.
In Dehradun district 166 midwives would be trained under the programme. In the three-day programme six batches of midwives would be trained every day.
The Director General (DG) of State Health Services, Dr RP Bhatt said the initiative to train midwives would go a long way in improving the health of rural women of remote areas.
Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Dehradun, Dr SP Agarwal said the training programme would help in saving precious lives of newborns and their mothers. Speaking on the occasion the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Max India Foundation, Daljit Kaur said an advisory committee of top gynaecologists and health experts was setup for training schedule and contents of midwives training programme. She claimed it would help in reducing mother, child mortality.