To promote community based monitoring among the Sahiyas, National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has announced to distribute home-based newborn care(HBNC) kit and 1,500 bicycles to these women in a conference at Social Development Centre (SDC), Ranchi on Wednesday.
Objectives to mark the success in reaching out and providing proper health facilities to rural dwellers was laid forth to Sahiyas by NRHM at the gathering. The major discussion of the conference was to activate and back the health working Sahiya in monitoring maternal health, regular infant health and all problems with health and sanitation in villages.
Most of the problems that Sahiya women face are lack of incentives on time in reaching out the people and in giving them proper guidelines without prior training. The need of training among these women was also emphasized in helping and providing correct remedy to pregnant women in rural areas.
“We have to reach out and provide health facilities in the rural areas and for this it is necessary to ensure that all the Sahiya get proper incentives to reach out and evoke awareness among rural families,” Abu Backer Siddique, Mission Director of NRHM, said during the conference.
One of the foremost goals of NRHM is to reduce infant mortality, thus HBNC kit distribution among Sahiya has also been made necessary.
To activate Sahiya working and bring participation of Panchayati Raj Institution, NRHM has also started a series of trainings at blocks of which seventh training module has already started under the HBNC guidelines received from Delhi. Now the focus seventh module training of NRHM is childcare and helping women undergone delivery.
Other problems and remedy regarding water and sanitation, disease control and health improvement in year 2013 was also discussed.