MDG: Improving Maternal Health
IC UHBOLICE PC #2
highlights * ANC registered in first trimester increased from 56 to 64 percent * Increase in institutional deliveries from 76 to 85 percent * Improved reporting of maternal deaths from 589 to 702 over previous year * Improved reporting of infant deaths from 4732 to 7263 over previous year
IC UHBOLICE PC #1
e-Mamta: Name based Mother and Child tracking application State Rural Health Mission, Commissionerate of Health e-Mamta mother and child tracking web based application is uniquely designed management tool being executed in Govt. health facilities across Gujarat to accommodate for gaps in ensuring comprehensive maternal and child health services in rural as well urban areas. e-Mamta is accessed through user id and password for in-department employees. It is credible tracking system that would enable health workers to reach above mentioned goals in accelerated fashion, as the issues of migration, low service demand, duplication of reporting afflicted MCH service delivery are removed. The system aims at life cycle approach, registering every individual pregnant mother, individual children in the age group 0-6 and adolescents (10-19 yrs) along with their full service uptake details to ensure complete service delivery of ante natal care(ANC), child birth, post natal care(PNC), immunization, nutrition and adolescent services and to track the left outs of these services. Website: www.e-mamta.guj.nic.in
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beneficiaries received various MCH services and 98 per cent of the expected ANCs were registered and 100 percent registration of current pregnancies is ensured
Remote medicine technologies for maternal care HMRI The HMRI- Mac Arthur telemedicine project is aimed at reducing the maternal mortality and morbidity in tribal populations in Andhra Pradesh. The Telemedicine solution was designed to overcome obstacles like bad roads, forested areas and an illiterate base riddled with superstitions and tribal customs. The pilot project in Araku, Vishakhapatnam district succeeded amidst these challenges. The remote medicine technologies developed by HMRI include ‘Dox-in-Box’ used in the field and a tele health centre with facilities for lab, video conferencing and medical consultation. The primary objective was to provide access to a point of care that could provide specialist advice / care at affordable cost, helps them in cutting down on unnecessary expenditure, losing time and wages. Secondary objective of HMRI’s Telemedicine service is to design a point of care, user friendly, cost effective, integrated multifunctional device for rural telemedicine applications with emphasis on mother and child functionality. This project is tackling the causes of maternal mortality at the habitation level, such as sepsis, hypertensive disorders, tuberculosis, malaria, etc. Website:www.hmri.in
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MDG: Reducing Child Mortality
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highlights * Elimination of delays in supplies * Total transparency * Timely and automatic billing and accounting
IC UHBOLICE PC #1
mFoods AP Foods Ltd A mobile technology and web technology based food supply chain management implemented to supply nutritional supplementary food to the pregnant women, lactating mothers, nursing mothers and children. The main activity of AP Foods is manufacturing and supplying fortified nutritious food to 229 ICDS projects benefiting 30.46 lakhs of children and women beneficiaries throughout the state. The project helps facilitate and avoid delays in food supplies, ensures transparency, efficiency and effectiveness to the state nutrition supplement program. To serve poor undernourished among underprivileged group of women and children. The implementation of ICDS projects and other government schemes is effective by capturing indents through mobiles. The project monitors the supplies through mobiles and reconciles with multiple agencies. It also tracks the supply status geographically with proper spatial analysis with Google maps. The primary objective is to manufacture and supply nutritious food to school and pre-school children, expectant & lactating mothers for improving the nutritional status. Website: www.apfoods.ap.nic.in
highlights decision support achieved very high specificity and sensitivity (more than 95 percent in various cases)
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Mobile based medical decisionsupport technology Department of Community Medicine, Stanley Medical College A novel mobile phone based clinical decision-support technology for village health providers to improve antenatal care for mothers and child health. With this premise a team of doctors from Stanley Medical College (SMC) and a group of engineers from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka started working on a decision-support technology for health-workers. With the ever increasing proliferation of mobile phones, the project has a platform which could be used to take away all the memorising and analysis out of the protocols by use of Information and Communication Technology. The objectives of starting the program were to develop a decision support technology for village health workers (VHW), provide immediate management of illness through diagnosis, treatment and advice of referral to secondary/ tertiary care and use the generated data for reminder and alerts enabling effective patient follow-up, tracking andmonitoring of illness over time. Website: www.stanmed.net
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