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Mysuru district’s maternal mortality complaint has declined to 32.2% and the babe mortality complaint has reduced to 11.1%, reflecting improvements successful healthcare transportation and monitoring, according to wellness officials.
Nine maternal deaths were reported successful Mysuru territory betwixt January and December 2025, portion the district’s maternal mortality complaint has declined to 32.2%, little than the State mean of astir 69%, indicating a affirmative downward trend.
By the extremity of December 2025, 311 babe deaths were recorded successful the district. The State mean babe mortality complaint stands astatine 19%, whereas Mysuru territory has reduced it to 11.1%, reflecting improvements successful healthcare transportation and monitoring, according to wellness officials.
The statistic were presented during the District Health Society reappraisal gathering for the 2025–26 play held astatine the Zilla Panchayat present connected February 17. Progress nether nationalist wellness programmes up to January 2026 was besides reviewed.
Chairing the meeting, Zilla Panchayat CEO Yukesh Kumar stressed the request for stronger and coordinated efforts to bring the babe mortality complaint down to zero. He urged officials to enactment proactively toward improving maternal and kid healthcare outcomes.
The gathering reviewed the recognition and referral of malnourished children to Nutrition Rehabilitation Centres (NRCs), highlighting the important relation played by Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) aesculapian teams. Under the Kayakalpa programme, 123 wellness centres crossed Mysuru territory — including those successful Nanjangud, Periyapatna, T. Narasipura, H.D. Kote, Hunsur and K.R. Nagar — person qualified for nationalist certification. The CEO told officials to guarantee each wellness centres execute grant eligibility.
Discussions besides focused connected expanding home-based healthcare services to municipality areas, maternal and kid wellness initiatives, cosmopolitan immunisation drives, prevention of kid marriage, monitoring of sex-determination violations, and different cases. Proper registration of pregnancies, organization deliveries, and timely information introduction into integer platforms specified arsenic Seva Sindhu and U-WIN were discussed, with the CEO giving indispensable directions.
The gathering besides examined Home-Based Newborn Care (HBNC) and Home-Based Care for Young Child (HBYC) kid wellness activities, household payment programmes, and non-communicable illness screening nether the C-BAC initiative. With the fiscal twelvemonth nearing completion, officials were directed to hole enactment plans to guarantee 100% advancement nether nationalist wellness schemes.
District Health and Family Welfare Officer Kumaraswamy P.C., programme implementation officers, paediatric specialists from Cheluvamba Hospital, taluk wellness officers, and different wellness unit attended the meeting.
