To take care of the newborn children and safeguard their health, the State Government will implement the Yashoda scheme in nine districts. Under the scheme, the pregnant women coming to the hospitals for delivery would be advised not to leave the hospital immediately and advice would be given to take care of the newborn child for at least 48 hours. As a result this would help in decreasing the child mortality rate, said Health Minister Sanatan Bisi.Bisi said the mother and child would be provided with advanced healthcare facilities and women would be persuaded for more and more institutional delivery to curb the Infant Mortality Rate and Mother Mortality Rate in the State.
The MMR is 401 in 1 lakh mothers and IMR which is 58 in 1,000 live births at the national level,in Orissa it is 358 and 73 respectively.This would be curbed further and efforts are by the Health Department to reduce MMR to 250 and IMR 50 respectively by 2010.An agreement was signed with Norway India Partnership Initiative on December 13,2007 according to which NIPI is extending cooperation. 'Yashodas' would be appointed in hospitals to advise and take care of the news born children.
The scheme has been already started in Sambalpur, Jharsuguda and Angul district.While 12 Yashodas were appointed in each of the district headquarter hospitals of Sambalpur and Angul, nine were absorbed in Jharsuguda district hospital. Other districts, which will be covered are Balasore, Keonjhar, Koraput, Rayagada, Malkanagiri and Kalahandi.In the hospitals or PHCs were more than 50 children are being born or delivered Yahodas would be appointed to give round the clock services, said the Minister.
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