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Health

Improving child and maternal health care in rural areas

by The Daily Eye Team January 8 2015, 2:14 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 47 secs

Taking a leaf out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi?? pioneering Digital India campaign, HLFPPT has launched an innovative e-ASHA training programme in the remote Suvali block of Surat in the PM?? home state, a fist of its kind initiative that has been shown to improve child and maternal healthcare delivery. ?The initiative ??an integrated easy-to-use package on Android platform for Tablets, has been developed by UNICEF in partnership with IIT Jodhpur for evidence-based interventions in integrated management of newborn and childhood illnesses and maternal care. ?The package helps in doing assessment situation of women and children and providing counselling on the basis of responses received from the beneficiaries. It saves data developed under Pregnancy Child Tracking System (PCTS) and also prevents the need of multiple entries at various levels. It also works as a reminder mechanism for sending an SMS to ASHAs (Accredited Social Health Activists) and to the beneficiaries to ensure tracking.?

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