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COUNTRY MMR(1L/LB)
INDIA 407
SRI LANKA 92
BANGALADESH 380
NEPAL 740
CHINA 56
JAPAN 10
SINGAPORE 15
UK 14
USA 14
SWITZERLAND 7
ESTIMATED MMR –MAJOR STATES –INDIA(2000)
STATES MMR/1L LB
ANDHRA PRADESH 154
BIHAR 451
GUJARAT 29
KARNATAKA 195
KERALA 195
MADHYA PRADESH 498
RAJASTAN 677
TAMIL NADU 76
UTTAR PRADESH 707
DISPARITY OF MATERNAL DEATH BETWEEN
DEVELOPED & DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
• BARRIER TO RECEIVE TIMELY & GOOD QUALITY
CARE
• BARRIER OF AVAILABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY OF
SERVICES
• POLITICAL BARRIER
• GEOGRAPHICAL BARRIER
• CULTURAL BARRIER
• WOMEN’S LITERACY AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
• TIME BARRIER
• ECONOMIC BARRIER
• BARRIER TO HAVE HEALTH PERSONNEL AT GRASS
ROOT LEVEL
RCH – Ι PROGRAMME
15.10. 1997
Objectives
· Reduction of Maternal Morbidity and
Mortality (MMR)
· Reduction of Infant Morbidity and
Mortality (IMR)
· Reduction of Under 5 Morbidity and
Mortality (U5MR)
· Promotion of adolescent health
· Control of reproductive tract infections
and sexually transmitted infections.
• The first phase of the programme had
started from 1997
• To bring down the birth rate below 21
per 1000 population
• To reduce the infant mortality rate
below 60 per 1000 life born
• To bring down the maternal mortality
rate below 400 per one lakh.
• Eighty per cent institutional delivery,
• 100 per cent antenatal care
• and 100 per cent immunization of
children
Target Oriented Goal Oriented
Performance by Performance by
Numbers Quality
01-04-2005
THE 5 YEAR PHASE OF RCH II
PHC-22928
SUB CENTER-
38044
1. MATERNAL HEALTH
a) 260 Primary Health Centres are proposed to be taken up for
improving access to Essential Obstetric and New Born Care
services round the clock in TN. All CHC, & 50% PHCs to be
made functional for 24 hrs delivery services,& 2000 FRU are
proposed
b) Improving quality of antenatal, neonatal and postnatal care
by providing increased number of antenatal checkups, fixed
day antenatal clinics, linking visits of neonates with
postnatal care, empowering the VHNs in performing
obstetric first aid and newborn care.
c) Improvement of the referral networking systems by
establishing emergency help line.
d) Regular conduct of blood donation camps for the continued
availability of blood in the blood banks.
e) Universalizing the concept of birth companionship during the
process of labour in all health facilities conducting deliveries.
f) Operationalisation of maternal death audit to address the
INFANT AND CHILD HEALTH
a. Reduction of new-born deaths, infant deaths
and child deaths by providing continuous health
care and strengthening of new-born care
infrastructure facilities.
b. Organizing counselling sessions for the
mothers.
c. Implementing integrated management of
neonatal and childhood illness as a pilot
initiative in selected districts in Tamil Nadu.
d. Operationalising infant death/stillbirth verbal
autopsy.
e. Addressing the issue of female infanticide and
foeticide.
3. ADOLESCENT HEALTH.
a) Focusing adolescents as receivers and
providers of knowledge and function as link
volunteers in the community.
b) Utilising the services of trained
adolescents for propagating Indian System of
Medicines.
c) Broadcasting and Telecasting of
programme by AIR/TV focusing adolescent,
gender and health related subjects.
d) Formation of co-ordination committee at
the district level and monitoring committee at
the State level for overseeing the AIR/TV
programme.
FAMILY WELFARE
a)While sustaining the ongoing family welfare
interventions in all districts, 19 districts with Higher
order births will be targeted for intensified
interventions.
b) Social marketing programme for condom and other
health commodities, promotion of IUD insertions,
familiarizing the concept of one-stop Family Welfare
Centre.
c) Increasing access to safe abortion services by
popularising manual vacuum aspiration (MVA)
technique.
d) Establishment of one-stop family welfare services at
Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and New Born
Care (CEMONC) Centres.
e) Popularizing No Scalpel Vasectomy.
5. Reproductive tract infections / Sexually
transmitted infections / Cancer control.