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Big boost for health services in Haryana

CHANDIGARH: Health services got a big boost in Haryana with the implementation of public-private partnership,

tele-medicine and a placement policy, formation of Village Health and Water Sanitation Committees and identification of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) during 2007.

An official spokesman said here on Tuesday that in the year just gone by, both WHO and UNICEF declared Haryana as free from neo-natal tetanus and other health indicators also showed marked improvement.

According to a survey conducted by the Union Government, the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) which was presumed to be 300 per lakh deliveries, was 162.

The Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), which was 61 per thousand live births as per Sample Registration Survey (SRS) 2004 (published in 2006) had now reduced to 42 as per National Family Health Survey-III.

The institutional deliveries, which were 23 per cent in 2004, had increased to 53 per cent in 2007.

Neurology and psychiatry services, along with clinical research facilities, were being offered at civil hospital, Gurgaon by a private institution ---the National Brain Research Centre.

The State Government had initiated VIKALP scheme for families living Below Poverty Line (BPL) to provide them treatment through accredited private hospitals, he added.

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