Uttarakhand to set up birth waiting homes for Pregnant women
"The Working Women's Hostel One-Stop Centers and Working Women's Hostel under the Department of Women and Child Development in Haridwar and Dehradun will be used as birth waiting for homes," NHM Director R Rajesh Kumar said.;
Dehradun: The 34th Executive Committee meeting of Uttarakhand Health and Family Welfare Committee, on Wednesday, decided to provide the benefit of birth waiting for homes to pregnant women.
The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Medical Secretary and National Health Mission Director R Rajesh Kumar.
"The Working Women's Hostel One-Stop Centers and Working Women's Hostel under the Department of Women and Child Development in Haridwar and Dehradun will be used as birth waiting for homes," he said.
He said that the pregnant women will have the facility of pre-natal stay and food in these birth waiting houses.
The Medical Secretary also told that AYUSH doctors working in National Child Health Program (RBSK) run under NHM Uttarakhand will be given honorarium at par with allopathic doctors.
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