The Union Government launched Pradhan Mantri Surakshit
Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA) to provide free health check-ups to pregnant women at
government health centres and hospitals.
The Scheme was launched by Union Minister of Health and
Family Welfare J P Nadda in New Delhi. It was announced by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi during his monthly radio address Mann Ki Baat in June 2016.
Key Features
The national programme aims to provide pregnant ladies
free ante-natal services (ANC) and required treatment for free on 9th of every
month.
Objectives of the scheme are
(i) Provide healthy life to the pregnant women.
(ii) Lowering the maternity mortality rate.
(iii) Making pregnant women aware of their health issues
and diseases.
(iv) Making sure
safe delivery and healthy life of the baby.
The scheme is applicable only for the pregnant women in
their pregnancy period of 3 to 6 months. It will provide all kinds of medical
checkups completely free to pregnant women.
These checkups
will take place at the medical centres, government and private hospitals and
private clinics across the country.
These free of cost tests will include blood pressure,
sugar level, weight, haemoglobin test, blood test and screening.
Women will be marked differently using different colour
stickers based on their health problems so that doctors can easily detect the
problem.
Different colour stickers will be Red Sticker for Serious
patients, Blue Sticker for High blood pressure and Yellow Sticker for Other
diseases.
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