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Jharkhand takes mother and child care hi-tech
The Government of Jharkhand has implemented 'Mamta' a solution aimed at tracking mother and child care programme in the state.
The programme, that is expected to considerably lower the infant as well as maternal mortality rate during pre and post natal phase, would also take care of the nutritional aspect of women and the newborn.

The software has been designed and developed the state level National Informatics Centre (NIC).

According to the Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda said that the state government at present is not able to keep track of ante natal and post natal care being provided to individual pregnant woman and the new born.

The routine immunisation, which is to be provided to each of them, is hampered due to poor infrastructure, inadequate health personnel, hilly terrain, myths and misconception especially among tribal population and low literacy rate.

According to NIC Technical Director and State Informatics Officer Shahid Ahmad, the state government conceptualised Mamta to overcome these problems.

"The broad objectives of the programme through the software is to reduce infant mortality rate (IMR), to improve the nutritional level of the child, to ensure completion of immunisation in children by tracking the proper growth of the individual child, and to reduce mother mortality rate (MMR) and reduce total fertility rate (TFR)," he said.

The software is capable of capturing data of individual pregnant woman and the newly born child at Anganwadi level and offer unique name-based searches on mother and child from central database.

The tool focuses on individual mother and child and helps monitor information on women becoming pregnant and their nutritional status.

It also helps the state health authorities monitor the number of deliveries taking place and number of deliveries being conducted by professionals and institutions across the state.

According to Ahmad, the solution helps track the type of birth—caesarean, still birth or normal birth—and the nutritional status of pregnant woman, including the use of iron folic acid tablets, tetanus toxide tablets and tiranga diet comprising pulses and cereals.

The Mamta software has also been designed to track complications during antenatal care like jaundice, fever and bleeding by pregnant woman, as well as number of postnatal visits and care being provided by ANMs and LHV to the mother.

Besides tracking the complications during postnatal period, it would also track the status of immunisation of individual child in an Anganwadi Centre and complete immunisation of newly born infants.

The software would also help in preparing reports including the Anganwadi wise beneficiaries due list for immunisations, depicting the tentative date for immunisation of different categories of vaccines.

With the help of the new software, the complete date chart for deadline of immunisation of different vaccines is automatically generated in report based on date of birth of child.

It would help in preparing the list for pregnant woman taking IFA, the analytical reports on individuals.

The software would provide interpretative suggestions based on above reports and will help to make conclusive decisions based on analytical and interpretative reports.
—iGovernment Bureau


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1 Dr Arun Gupta
Mar 10th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Congratulations Jharkhand, I would appreciate if you would include indicators on breastfeeding in the monitoring format like mothers who begin breastfeeding within an hour, mothers who practice exclusive breastfeeding for first six months and begin complementary feeding after that. Those who cant are actually at risk of poor child health and nutrition

Dr. Arun Gupta, MD, FIAP,
National Coordinator, BPNI
Regional Coordinator IBFAN Asia
Phone: 91-11-27343608, 42683059
Mobile: 91 9911176306


2 sachin
Mar 10th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
I appreciate the initiative. But my apprehension would be in terms of collection of reports. How would you ensure that at AWC level datas are entered correctly and are reported at block level and so on.
Secondly in order to ensure the success the Survey should be appropriate.If survey is not proper than left outs would be never tracked.

Best Regards
Sachin

3 Subash Chandra Ghosh
Mar 10th, 2008 at 10:01 pm Quote
It is a welcome step and hope it will augment the activities of Mukhya Mantri Janani Sishu Surakhya Yojana which is one of the brain child of Mr.Madhu. I am still in doubt that who will enter the data, as far as I had been in the state for one month, I was amused to see the poor infrastructure and communication facilities in the state. People lack skills to carry out hi-tech infos, or the babus in RCH bhawan will feed the blanks to impress EPOS like organisations.

Please make sure that such innovations have sustainability, who will pay the bill for computer maintenance, are there enough provisions for AMC of computers and softwares, what about the feedback mechanism in the software and response time of these feedback.

I am sure people will look into all these for sustenance.

Subash

4 Akshaya Limal
Mar 11th, 2008 at 12:10 am Quote
The High tech solution devloped by Jharkhand Govt shows the great importance the state government is showing to reduce IMR & MMR through individual tracking of all pregnant women and complete immunisation of all eligible beneficaries. But the software needs constant updation and with proper startegy to cover the dropout & left out children. Besides this, lot more effort need to be done to see that maxmium no of pregnant women should delivery their children at Hopsital. But it is really a great begining for this high tech age. All credit to the NIC team for their exampliary effort.

Akshaya Limal (Koraput) Orissa

5 Ramesh Babu
Mar 11th, 2008 at 8:32 am Quote
If operationalzed effectively, the tracking system should help the health and ICDS professionals to target each mother and child. Keep us the good work

6 Biraja Kabi Satapathy
Mar 11th, 2008 at 10:43 am Quote
Reduction of child motality is an imortant goal for each of us at present. The step taken to monitor and track pre natal, post natal care and immunisation of ind child is a noble effort by the jharkhand Govt. We appreciate the effort.

7 Hariom Tulsyan
Mar 11th, 2008 at 1:02 pm Quote
It would be interesting to see how the programme is implimented.Normally the failure is in how we execute such programmess. The state is one of the bimaru states. I hope the precious resources are not wasted.

8 Subrato K. Mondal
Mar 11th, 2008 at 3:16 pm Quote
Thanks for such thoughts. A Jharkhand like state will take another 50 years to implement it sucessfully. Where a block level office (health & ICDS) can not update records regularly (due to number of factors like non-availability of computers with network, irregular supply of power, lack of trained manpower, due to frequent transfer etc.), a hi-tech system like this is illusive to implement. It is not hi-tech, which will reduce maternal mortality or IMR. Only human intervention can save life. A backward supportive supervision can save a lot. But where is the manpower or motivation to so?
Anyway all the best and well wishes.
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