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Chapter 2: SITUATION ANALYSIS
Maternal & Child Health
Chandigarh Administration has launched the project Vision 2012 for improving
Monitorable Reproductive and Child Health Indicators in U.T., Chandigarh for vulnerable
population identified after a special survey in 41 slums/ resettlement colonies in
Chandigarh with a population of 3,17,053.
Strategy:
The specific strategy has been evolved to achieve the objective of the project, wherein
it is desired to reduce Neonatal, Infant and Maternal Mortality, prevalence of anemia
among women and children, under Nutrition in Chandigarh below three years of age
and the unmet need of Family Planning with the strategies, to increase demand for
services by social mobilization and also by offering financial incentives and by providing
services at no cost to the clients along with a strong monitoring and evaluation system
which will include maternal and neo-natal death audit and surveys by independent
agency such as PGIMER, Chandigarh.
Promotion of 100% Institutional deliveries, incentives and motivation for institutional
delivery especially in slum areas, effective implementation of Janani Suraksha Yojna
and additional incentives for institutional delivery, performance based incentives to link
volunteers (AWW) for increasing health service utilization in slums, Operationalisation of
two Community Health Centres and Poly Clinic, Sector 45 to provide basic Emergency
Obstetric care, creation of a lifeline for mother and children by providing drug kits/
vouchers for mother and sick children reporting to hospitals, identification and referral of
severely malnourished children by link volunteers, management of severely
malnourished children with provision of day care nutrition centers, improve
immunization coverage especially for measles, introduction of Hib vaccine for slum
children, strengthening of school health programme by medical examination at least
once a year along with de-worming and iron prophylaxis, health check-up of under-five
children, nutritional surveillance, de-worming, iron and Vitamin – A prophylaxis
The main target population for improvement of Maternal and Child Health – under the
11th Five Year Plan 2007-2012 would be the slum population wherein the RCH
Indicators are worse than the urban average. The Administration in an endeavor to
improve the goals and objectives of RCH-II among the vulnerable population by
ensuring accessibility and availability of quality primary health care and Family Welfare
Services to them and to bring them at par in this respect with rest of the population and
thus improving the aggregate indicators towards achieving the expected results set
under RCH Phase-II by the end of 2010.
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