The Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan

The Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan has been launched by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MOHFW), Government of India. The program aims to provide health caring comprehensive and quality antenatal care, free of cost, universally to all pregnant women of India on the 9th of every month free nutrition, money along with treatments.

The programed follows a systematic approach for engagement with private sector which includes motivating private practitioners to volunteer of NGOs for the campaign developing strategies for generating awareness and appealing to the private sector to participate in the Abhiyan at government health facilities entirely.

Objectives of the program:

• Ensure at least one antenatal checkup for all pregnant women in their second or third trimester by a physician/specialist
• Improve the quality of care during ante-natal visits. This includes ensuring provision of the following services:
  • All applicable diagnostic services
  • Screening for the applicable clinical conditions
  • Appropriate management of any existing clinical condition such as Anemia
    , Pregnancy induced hypertension, Gestational Diabetes etc.
  • Appropriate counseling services and proper documentation of services rendered
  • Additional service opportunity to pregnant women who have missed ante-natal visits
• Identification and line-listing of high risk pregnancies based on obstetric/ medical history and existing clinical conditions.
• Appropriate birth planning and complication readiness for each pregnant woman especially those identified with any risk factor or comorbidity condition.
• Special emphasis on early diagnosis, adequate and appropriate management of women with malnutrition.
• Special focus on adolescent and early pregnancies as these pregnancies need extra and specialized care.
  

 Antenatal checkup services would be provided by OBGY specialists/Radiologist/physicians with support from private sector doctors to supplement the efforts of the government sector.

• Green Sticker - for women with no risk factor detected
• Red Sticker – for women with high risk pregnancy

Personal Reviews

Well this Government scheme seems to be very good for those pregnant women especially for rural women who don't have that much of sufficient money or non-financially stabilized for the treatment and in those trimester times women needs to be in high care medically and nutritiously. Being Monitoring is the important thing for pregnant women whether they were getting monthly checkups and all or not. 

In India, mostly rural place women were involved in domestic and labor working in case of bread earning factors so might there in laws doesn't care of their health so at least those women can get good treatment under the Govt. Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan scheme.

If the Campaigns of the scheme is moving well to those rural places then it would be the best thing happening around. where I come across to know most of the women gone dead while delivery time due to lack of equipment and therapy treatment and hope so after launching this government scheme the new generations could have good approach.