Centre launches mother-child health care schemeCentre launches mother-child health care scheme

Mewat (Haryana): June 02, 2011

Concerned over the high maternal and infant mortality rate in the country, the Centre launched an ambitious programme to provide free services to pregnant women for deliveries and neo-natal care, if needed, up to a month after birth. The facility will be available to all women in government health institutions in both rural and urban settings, and is expected to benefit over one crore women annually.Launching the Janani-Shishu Suraksha Karyakram, a scheme sponsored by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare from Mewat — a predominantly Muslim area — Sonia Gandhi, chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance, said the UPA government had always tried to give women their dues, constitutionally and legally.

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