Rs 154 crore plan formulated to implement strategies to reduce IMR by 2020

The action plan enlists the community and health facility-based interventions for accelerating rate of decline, which includes birth preparedness, home-based newborn care, mothers absolute affection (MAA), Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight (IDCF), Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP), VHNDs and IMNCI.

Srinagar:  The Jammu and Kashmir Government has formulated a comprehensive action plan to reduce the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) to a single digit by the year 2020 in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, an official spokesman said on Thursday.

He said the Health and Medical Education Department prepared the action plan with technical support from Norway-India Partnership Initiative (NIPI) teams, for which a Technical Expert Committee has been constituted, which had the members from Paediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynaecology departments of GMC Srinagar and Jammu.

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The action plan enlists the community and health facility-based interventions for accelerating rate of decline, which includes birth preparedness, home-based newborn care, mothers absolute affection (MAA), Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight (IDCF), Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP), VHNDs and IMNCI.