MCD launches e-governance project for maternity homes

To store vital information about a particular patient and retrieve it at the click of a mouse

PTI | April 12, 2011



A new e-governance project which will enable all MCD maternity homes to store vital information about a particular patient and retrieve it at the click of a mouse was unveiled by the civic body on the occasion of safe motherhood day today.

Additional Commissioner (Health and IT) A J Kurien launched the project and released posters on safe motherhood and small family at Indian Population Project-VIII Maternity Home in Badarpur in south Delhi.

The software will enable the maternity homes of MCD to know all vital data about a particular patient including his or her date of admission, disease history, treatment given, date of discharge, referral or any information related with treatment given at any point of time on just a single click, officials said.

This will help in tracking patients for their ante-natal check up and immunisation dropouts of children with great ease, they said.

The posters released by Kurien have been developed by IPP-VIII in co-ordination with Directorate of Press and Information, MCD and have been specifically designed for residents of slum clusters, where literacy rate is usually low.

IPP-VIII is providing primary health care services to 12.5 lakh residents of 929 slum clusters of Delhi.

WHO estimates show that out of the 529,000 maternal deaths globally each year, 136,000 (25.7 per cent) are contributed by India. This is the highest burden for any single country.

Majority of women are dying due to severe bleeding, infections, eclampsia - a life-threatening complication of pregnancy, obstructed labour and the consequences of unsafe abortions, though there are highly effective interventions for these causes
 

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