CURATED BY – DHEERAJ KUMAR AHIRWAL | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Damoh, Urban Health Mission is being run under National Health Mission to reduce the OPD load of the district hospital, in which currently one UPHC and 6 Sanjeevani clinics are operating. Under Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan-PMSMA, a special camp was organized in Urban Primary Health Center BD Colony Jatashankar Damoh. In which the women coming were examined and treated by gynecologist Dr. Rajita Gangra and UPHC staff.
147-beneficiaries registered themselves in the camp, in which 72-pregnant women, 25-high risk pregnant women, 6-PNC women, apart from 67 general patients got themselves examined. On the orders of Collector Sudhir Kumar Kochar, the camp was inspected by District Registrar Officer Monica Navrang. District Registrar Officer Monika Navrang said that out of the patients who came to the camp, 6 were given iron sucrose and blood samples of other patients were taken and sent to the contracted institution for examination, whose report will be given to the concerned in the next two to three days.
District Health Officer Dr. Rita Chatterjee said that under the direction of Collector Sudhir Kumar Kochar, PMSMA special camps are being organized in all the institutions on 2, 9, 16 and 25 of every month in the entire district under the Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan. In this sequence, 25 high-risk women who came to UPHC Jatashankar Damoh today are being examined and are being continuously monitored, so that maternal mortality rate can be reduced. Also, due to the operation of Urban Primary Health Center in the urban area, some OPD load of the district hospital will also be reduced.