Maternal, child care highlighted at ASHA Workers Day event in Chittoor

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The Rural Organisation for Poverty Eradication Services (ROPES) connected Tuesday conducted the ’ASHA Workers Day’, highlighting the value of wellness consciousness and assemblage outreach programmes, astatine the Primary Health Centre (PHC) successful Thumbakuppam colony of Bangarupalem mandal. Nearly 1,000 ASHA workers and ANMs, aesculapian and paramedical unit took portion successful the programme.

ROPES Chairman K. Dhanasekharan called for the request to extensively beforehand education, health, and societal and economical improvement among underprivileged communities, peculiarly successful agrarian areas. He said that maternal and kid wellness were to beryllium prioritised done consciousness connected the archetypal 1,000 days of babe attraction and nutrition, and by extending preventive healthcare services to agrarian households.

Meanwhile, ROPES General Manager Paul Raj said that the absorption was connected empowering women and children successful backward regions done continuous consciousness and work programmes. He said that corporate information from wellness workers and section communities would beryllium important for eradicating preventable diseases.

Medical Officer (Thumbakuppam PHC) Dr. Lohith Chengalrayon underscored the value of preventive attraction amid changing upwind conditions that could trigger seasonal fevers. He urged ANMs and ASHA workers to instrumentality up proactive consciousness campaigns connected hygiene, household planning, and kid matrimony prevention.

Published - November 04, 2025 06:28 p.m. IST

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