The Telangana government is set to launch ‘KCR Nutritional Kits’ for pregnant women in nine districts of the state on Wednesday, continuing its special focus on Mother and Child Health (MCH).
The KCR Nutritional Kits are designed to improve the nutritional status of pregnant women, particularly those who are anemic. These kits will be distributed in nine districts: Adilabad, Bhadradri Kothagudem, Jayashankar Bhupalapally, Jogulamba Gadwal, Kamareddy, Kumram Bheem Asifabad, Mulugu, Nagarkurnool, and Vikarabad, where anemia is prevalent among pregnant women.
The kits will directly benefit 1.50 lakh pregnant women in these districts. The state government has made plans to distribute 2.50 lakh kits at a cost of Rs. 50 crore. Health Minister T Harish Rao will launch the initiative in Kamareddy on Wednesday, while local ministers will launch it in the other eight districts.
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Telangana Minister for Health T Harish Rao said the State government is taking elaborate steps to encourage normal deliveries and curb the practice of conducting unwanted cesarean sections at government and private hospitals in Telangana.
Speaking at a program to mark the celebrations of World Breastfeeding Week organized at Government Maternity Hospital, Petlaburj here, Minister Harish Rao said that the State government had taken a stern decision to reduce C-sections at any cost and promote normal deliveries in all hospitals, including private.
The Minister said the State government announced a series of measures, including financial-based incentives to the staff at government maternity hospitals aimed at addressing the issue on multiple fronts and it has also decided to do away with C-sections coverage of unwanted cesarean sections Rs.11,000 per delivery under Aarogyasri Health Insurance Scheme.
The Rs.11,000 for a C-section under Aarogyasri was becoming a negative incentive for normal deliveries. That is the reason the State government has decided to stop providing coverage to unwanted C-sections.,” Harish Rao disclosed.
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