Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan

Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 910
TO BE ANSWERED ON 29/11/2024

PRADHAN MANTRI SURAKSHIT MATRITVA ABHIYAN

910. SHRI CHUDASAMA RAJESHBHAI NARANBHAI:

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

(a) the total number of maternal deaths, stillbirths and newborn deaths during the last five years, State/UT- wise;

(b)whether the Government is organizing awareness camps and regular pregnancy related health camps in rural areas across the country as almost 16 percent of Indian women are not receiving any form of healthcare during their pregnancy; if so, the details thereof;

(c) if so, the details of the budgetary expenditure under the Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA) for the last five years; and

(d) the total number of beneficiarie sunder the PMSMA during the last five years, State/year- wise?

ANSWER
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

(SMT. ANUPRIYA PATEL)

(a) As per the report of Sample Registration System (SRS) released by Registrar General of India (RGI) in 2018-20, Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) of India is 97 per 100,000 live births. India has accomplished the National Health Policy (NHP) target for MMR of less than 100/lakh live birth. The details of State/UT wise MMR during the last five years is placed at Annexure-I.

As per Sample Registration System of Registrar General of India (RGI) 2020, the Still Birth Rate (SBR) of India is 3 per 1000 total births and Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR) of India is 20 per 1000 live births. States/ UTs wise SBR and NMR during last five years is placed at Annexure II and Annexure III respectively.

(b) Government of India has implemented following schemes/steps for creating awareness and regular health check-up camps for pregnantwomen across the country including rural areas;

• Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA) provides pregnant women a fixed day, free of cost assured and quality antenatal check up by a Specialist/Medical Officer on the 9th day of every month. Obstetrician and Gynaecologist / Radiologist/ Doctor working in the private sector are encouraged to provide voluntary services at designated public healthcare facilities.
• Extended PMSMA strategy was launched to ensure quality ANC to pregnant women, especially to high-risk pregnancy (HRP) women and individual HRP tracking until a safe delivery is achieved by means of financial incentivization for the identified high-risk pregnant women and accompanying ASHA for extra three visits over and above the PMSMA visit.
• Surakshit Matritva Aashwasan (SUMAN) aims to provide assured, dignified, respectful and quality healthcare at no cost and zero tolerance for denial of services for every woman and newborn visiting the public health facility.
• Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK) entitles all pregnant women delivering in public health institutions to have absolutely free and no expense delivery, including caesarean section. The entitlements include free drugs, consumables, free diet during stay, free diagnostics and free blood transfusion, if required, and free transport from home to institution and vice versa, starting from prenatal period up to post-natal period (up to 42 days after delivery). Similar entitlements are also provided for sick infants up to 1 year of age.
• Monthly Village Health, Sanitation and Nutrition Day (VHSND) is an outreach activity at Anganwadi centers for provision of maternal and child care including nutrition in convergence with the ICDS.
• Outreach camps are provisioned for improving the reach of health care services especially in tribal and hard to reach areas. This platform is used to increase the awareness for the Maternal and Child health services, community mobilization as well as to track high risk pregnancies.
• Ayushman Arogya Mandirteams organize camps on a periodic basis, to reach the marginalized, support treatment compliance and follow-up pregnant women and newborn etc.
• Maternal and Child Protection (MCP) Card and Safe Motherhood Booklet are distributed to the pregnant women for educating them on diet, rest, importance of antenatal care and postnatal care visits, danger signs of pregnancy, benefit schemes and institutional deliveries.
• IEC/BCC campaigns: One of the key focus areas of Maternal Health is to generatedem and through Information Education and Communication (IEC), Inter- personal Communication (IPC) and Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) activities.

(c) The budgetary expenditure under Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA) during the last five years is placed at Annexure-IV

(d) Since inception, more than 5.59 crore pregnant women have received Comprehensive ANC under PMSMA programme across all states and UTs. The number of beneficiaries, state/UT-wise and year-wise, under PMSMA during the last five yearsis placed at Annexure-V.

Annexure – I

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