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M.P. offer to private hospitals on rural health services

Staff Correspondent

Bid to bring down infant mortality rate; applications invited from institutions

BHOPAL: To bring down the infant mortality rate, the Madhya Pradesh Government has invited applications from private hospitals for providing mother-and-child health services in rural and tribal areas.

The State Minister for Public Health and Family Welfare, Rustam Singh, has announced that institutions responding to this proposal would be paid at the rate of Rs. 800 for a normal delivery, Rs. 1900 for a complicated delivery, Rs. 300 for safe abortion, Rs. 4530 for a caesarian delivery (LSCS) and at the rate of Rs. 500 per patient for blood transfusion.

Similarly, rates have been fixed for taking care of the newly-born in the private hospitals. Under the new policy an amount of Rs. 250 would be paid each day for the care of the premature born and Rs. 50 each for baby warmers and child specialists.

Mr. Singh said the private hospitals applying for the government's new scheme would be required to equip themselves with certain facilities. These hospitals will have to be equipped with fully functional operation theatres, labour rooms, cold chain and at least 20 to 30 beds along with uninterrupted power supply.

He said that even hospitals with 10 to 12 beds located in remote and inaccessible areas would be considered eligible under this scheme. Besides these facilities, the private hospitals would need to have specialist doctors and paramedical staff, proper equipment, medicines, fully functional pathology lab, 24-hour water supply, telephone, ambulance and blood storage facilities in accordance with the guidelines set by the Union Government.

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