Aiming to provide better treatment to newborn children, the Yogi Adityanath government has ordered the setting up of the Newborn Stabilisation Unit and Special Newborn Care Unit in every district and an increase in the number of beds.
These sub-centres will have arrangements for maternal health, child health, immunisation, adolescent health, diabetes, blood pressure check-up, communicable and non-communicable disease management and treatment.
Besides, yoga and exercise, counseling, school health education and emergency medical facilities will also be provided there. Apart from immunisation and maternal health check-up, treatment facilities will be provided with measures to prevent seasonal diseases, such as tuberculosis and malaria.
"The Health department has been asked to make arrangements for necessary equipment, doctors and paramedical staff at these new sub-centres," a government spokesman said in Lucknow on Wednesday.
"In the last five years, as many as 5,000 new health sub-centres have been opened across the state. The government has set a target of setting up 10,000 new sub-centres in the next five years. With these health sub-centres operational, rural people will get several facilities in their own locality," the official said.