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Family planning: hospitals to come under scanner

Staff Reporter

Thiruvananthapuram: District-level quality assurance committees would be formed, with the District Collector as the chairperson, to review family planning services and facilities in public and private hospitals in the district.

This was decided on Tuesday at the first meeting of the State Quality Assurance Committee, which was set up to ensure quality of sterilisation surgeries and other family planning services. The committee was constituted following a directive from the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

The State-level committee has the Health Secretary, Vishwas Mehta as the chairperson and the Director of Health Services, T. K. Kuttamani as the convener.

The ten-member committee also includes the Director of Medical Education, N. Sudayakumar, the Additional Director of Health Services (Health and Family Welfare), N. Hema and consultant gynaecologist at SUT Academy of Medical Sciences, Rajasekharan Nair.

The committee will examine the family planning facilities in hospitals and submit reports to the Government. It will also conduct audits into deaths that may occur rarely following complications in sterilisation surgeries and review the progress of the national family planning insurance scheme.

The district-level committees will inspect all hospitals and prepare a draft of the basic facilities each hospital that offers family planning services should compulsorily have.

All hospitals should fill in the details in a prescribed form and submit it to the District Medical Officer.

Hospitals which fulfil the requirements for offering quality family planning services will be recognised as accredited family planning centres by the quality assurance committee.

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