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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.

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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.

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