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The Health Department has taken important steps to promote institutional deliveries. Systems of First Referral Units (FRUs) are being overhauled. On-call arrangements will be made to meet the shortage of doctors. The National Health Mission (NHM) has issued a guideline to keep doctors on-call. After this, Deputy Chief Minister Brijesh Pathak has directed the Director General of Health and Family Welfare to implement the system in a better way.
Institutional delivery will get a boost
About 56 lakh deliveries are taking place in UP every year. In order to reduce maternal infant mortality, there is a preparation to strengthen the system of institutional delivery. In this, the shortage of doctors was still stalling. On-call doctors can now be called in First Referral Units also. There are 417 FRUs in UP. All facilities of treatment are available in 149. Due to the shortage of doctors, many FIRU Center patients are not getting all the facilities for treatment, so a solid system is being made. Separate honorarium will be provided for calling on call and follow up.
Oncall facility for caesarean only
The special thing is that the only doctor will be called for Caesarean. In FRUs where there will not be a team of gynecology and anesthesia specialists, then specialists working in the private sector can be called on-call. Specialists posted at district level hospitals can be called on-call in rural FRU units as well as specialists posted in rural FRUs can be called on-call for caesarean delivery at district level hospitals. The CMO will obtain consent letters from experts willing to work on call in all the state FRU health units of the district. They will be associated with the District Health Committee. The experts selected in this panel may be given an opportunity to select one or more FRU units.
Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak said that the system of caesareans in FRU units will reduce the pressure of patients in big hospitals. It will be easier for pregnant women to get treatment in time. FRU has arrangements for necessary medicines and equipment etc. The system of Ankal doctors should be implemented effectively. So that the villagers can get the benefit of it.
