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Directorate of Family Welfare - Service Facilities

Institutional Deliveries: -

  • Ante Natal Registration

  • Screening of High Risk Pregnancy and Follow-up
  • Anaemia Correction
  • TT Immunization
  • Intra-natal Care, Emergency Obstetric Services, Post Natal Care 
  • New born Care, Child Immunisation
  • Gender issues & sensitisation

Institutional Delivery alone is safe for Mother and Child.

* The pregnant mother should gain a minimum of 10 kg weight during pregnancy period, then only the new born child will be of 3 kg weight.

* For better maternal and child health care and to avoid anemia during pregnancy the pregnant mother should take Iron Folic Acid Tablets, more Vegetables, Green leaves, Milk and Fruits.

     


Protect Female Children, Educate them. Female Child is an eye of a Family

Awareness on Scan

Taking scan is a boon for maternal and child health.  However, it should not be misused .

* Scanning should be taken only on the medical advice of Registered Medical Practitioners.

* Scanning should be restricted for diagnosing the health of the foetus only. It should not be used for sex determination, which is punishable under the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994.

* Operating the Scan Centres without the License, Doctors recommending Unapproved Scan Centres for taking Scan is punishable under the same act.

* If the Public come to know about the functioning of unapproved Scan Centres and the incidence of female infanticide, they may inform the same to the following address:

Joint Director of Health Services as well as the Director of Medical and Rural Health Services, Chennai - 600 006.