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Directorate of Family Welfare - Service Facilities

Family Welfare Centres: -

The following family welfare centers  are functioning to render Family Welfare Services in the State.

1.

Post Partum Centres

118

2.

Urban Family Welfare Centres

101

3.

Urban Health Posts

198

4.

Rural Family Welfare Centres

382

5.

Approved Nursing Homes

1038

6.

Voluntary Organisation

31

Family Welfare and Maternal and Child Health activities are carried out in Tamil Nadu through these Centers. Out of the total Sterilization Performance in the  State  55%  of Sterilization are performed in the Government institutions, 11% in Voluntary Organizations, 25% in the remaining in approved Nursing Homes, 4% in local bodies and 5% in unapproved Nursing Homes.

Services

  • 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

  • Family Welfare Services 

  • Family Welfare Temporary Methods

    • IUD insertion and follow-up
    • MTP with IUD and OP
    • Condom Distribution
    • Oral Pill distribution & follow-up

  • Family Welfare Permanent Methods

    • TAT, PS, Laparoscopic Sterilisation and MTP with Tubectomy, No Scalpel Vasectomy.

  • MTP Services

    • At PHC level upto 8 weeks of Pregnancy
    • At PPC and UFWC level upto 20 weeks of Pregnancy
    • Trained Doctors and Equipments available

  • Micro Surgery: Re-canalisation and Infertility

  • Cancer Screening: PAP Smear Test Facility

 
No Scalpel  Vasectomy (NSV):

The method of No Scalpel Vasectomy for males is very simple and has the following advantages:

  • Very simple

  • This can be done in a matter of 3 minutes without knife & suture and the patient can  be discharged after a few hours and can resume normal duties on the same day.
  • NSV is not a hindrance to strenuous activities.
  • There is no fear of loosing manliness.
  • No need to stay in Hospitals.

Hence, men having more than 2 living children and who's wives are not fit for sterilisation like anaemia, heart diseases, infection etc. can undergo NSV and raise upto the occasion and be a source  of removal of gender inequality.  More higher order births (More than 2 children ) can be reduced if males accept NSV and the Birth Rate of Tamil Nadu can be brought down to 15 per 1000 population in 2005 A.D. from the present level of 19.3 per 1000 population.