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NGOs' help sought to check infant mortality

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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister inaugurates Vijaya Raje Janani Kalyan Bima Yojana

BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday asked the people's representatives and NGOs working in the health sector to come forward and lend their full support to efforts aimed at bringing down the high rate of maternal and infant mortality in the State.

The Chief Minister made this appeal while inaugurating the Vijaya Raje Janani Kalyan Bima Yojana here. Mr. Chauhan said that concrete results can be

achieved only by promoting institutional delivery. He handed over a cheque for Rs. 4.40 crore to the United India Insurance Company to formally launch the special insurance scheme. The Chief Minister said a special initiative is required to promote institutional delivery in maximum number of cases, keeping in view women who belong to the economically deprived sections and cannot afford to go to private hospitals for delivery.

The Chief Minister said that the people's representatives can take steps to build awareness and ensure that the poor families in the rural areas get full benefit of the State Government's institutional delivery scheme.

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