CAG report slams Bihar on poor implementation of NHRM
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PATNA: The latest report of Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) highlighted the poor implementation of National Rural Health Mission in Bihar where inadequate antenatal care and shortage of gynaecologists in health centres, prompted half of the pregnant women to opt for home delivery.
The maternal mortality rate was 208 against the targeted rate of 100 out of 1,00,000 pregnant women, said the CAG report for the year 2015 which was presented in Bihar Assembly by Finance Minister Abdul Bari Siddiqui.
Tej Pratap Yadav, son of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, is the Health Minister of the state.
The report said antenatal care prescribed by NRHM framework for pregnant women specified that early registration of pregnancy, ideally within first trimester (before 12th week of pregnancy), should be ensured along with minimum three antenatal check ups and supplementation of Iron and Folic Acid (IFA) tablets for at least 100 days.
The maternal mortality rate was 208 against the targeted rate of 100 out of 1,00,000 pregnant women, said the CAG report for the year 2015 which was presented in Bihar Assembly by Finance Minister Abdul Bari Siddiqui.
Tej Pratap Yadav, son of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, is the Health Minister of the state.
The report said antenatal care prescribed by NRHM framework for pregnant women specified that early registration of pregnancy, ideally within first trimester (before 12th week of pregnancy), should be ensured along with minimum three antenatal check ups and supplementation of Iron and Folic Acid (IFA) tablets for at least 100 days.
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