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Deputy Commissioner Kumar connected Monday expressed interest implicit the debased organization transportation rates reported from 10 Primary Health Centres (PHCs) successful the territory and directed officials to analyse the reasons down the decline. Currently, 69% of deliveries are taking spot successful authorities hospitals, helium said.
Presiding implicit a advancement reappraisal gathering of National Health programmes astatine his office, the Deputy Commissioner stressed the request to guarantee nutritional enactment and monitoring successful high-risk pregnancies. He besides instructed officials to promote harmless organization deliveries.
SAANS Campaign
Dr. Kumar said a peculiar campaign, Social Awareness and Actions to Neutralise Pneumonia Successfully (SAANS), has been launched successful the district. The campaign, which began connected November 12, volition spell connected till February 28, 2026, to forestall and destruct pneumonia among young children. Under the initiative, wellness workers volition sojourn households with children aged 0–5 years, behaviour wellness assessments, and guarantee pneumonia-prevention vaccination. He besides released the SAANS run poster connected the occasion.
Action against amerciable scanning and enactment determination
Dr. Kumar besides directed that ultrasound scanning should beryllium performed lone for large women possessing the ‘Mother Card’ and warned against amerciable scanning and enactment determination, which lend to pistillate foeticide.
He directed officials to behaviour regular inspections astatine each scanning centres, prosecute individuals progressive successful unlawful scanning, and organise consciousness drives to forestall pistillate foeticide.
The Deputy Commissioner further said that the enactment ratio successful Mandya territory stands astatine lone 935 girls per 1,000 males and emphasised the request for urgent measures to close the imbalance.
District Reproductive and Child Health Officer Dr. K.P. Ashwath, Leprosy Eradication Officer Dr. Somasekhar, Tuberculosis Officer Dr. M.N. Ashalatha, Dr. Bettaswamy, erstwhile District Health Officer Dr. T.N. Mari Gowda, and different officials were present.
