The Nainital district administration has decided to bring down the maternal death rate from 181 per lakh to 100 per lakh by 2017.
At the same time, it has also decided to control infant deaths across the district in the next three years. Expressing concern over the present status of the infant deaths in the district, the Nainital district administration has decided to bring down the infant death rate from 30 per thousand to 25 per thousand by 2017.
To achieve these targets we have to strengthen our basic heath infrastructure and to train the human resource, said Akshat Gupta, District Magistrate, Nainital. “For this purpose we have decided to demand Rs 52 crore under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM),” added the District Magistrate.
At the same time he also stressed on the need to pay special attention to the woman and child health care.