Chitradurga
We all need to play a vital role in reducing maternal and infant mortality rates in the district. We need to take extra care of pregnant women after they are found to be seven weeks pregnant, said District RCH Officer Dr DM Abhinav.
He was speaking while inaugurating a Pregnant Women Checkup Camp jointly organized by Chitradurga Medical College and Research Center and District Health and Family Welfare Department at the Buddha Nagar Health Center here on Tuesday.
A healthy woman can give birth to a healthy child. Therefore, if a pregnant woman is kept fit, a healthy child will be born. Recently, we are seeing low hemoglobin levels in pregnant women. Efforts are being made to compensate the high number of pregnant women by giving them iron tablets and supplementary injections to increase their hemoglobin levels. Doctors advised that it is mandatory to call pregnant women in their area once a month at the primary health center level and make it a practice to check their health.
Expressing the opinion that in the future, couples who decide to have a child should think about maintaining good health and thinking about having a child, he said that such camps should be organised in large numbers at the rural level.
District Ayush Department Medical Officer Dr Shivakumar spoke and said that if women are taken care of well, they will become a strong and healthy family. The Ayush Department distributed free Chyawanprash to about a hundred pregnant women present.
Bhagya Jyoti, an obstetrician and gynecologist from the district hospital, Dr Ashwini, Dr Shantha, Dr Prabhudeva Banakar from the government medical college, Taluk Health Officer Dr Girish, District AYUSH Officer Dr. Chandrakant Nagasamudra were present.
