The Hindu 16.12.2013
Coimbatore Corporation sees increase in deliveries at maternity homes
Karthik Madhavan
In the last two months, the 20 maternity homes the
Coimbatore Corporation runs have seen an increase in the number of
deliveries. Mayor S.M. Velusamy told journalists here on Saturday that
in October it was 107 and in November 116.
In
September it stood at 89 and remained between 75 — 65 since the
beginning of the financial year. The Mayor attributed the increase in
the institutional deliveries to a series of measures the Corporation had
taken in the recent past like providing food to the women during their
stay at the maternity homes and improvement in facilities.
But there was more.
According
to sources, the review by the Commissioner G. Latha of the functioning
of health wing revealed that the coordination between the medical
officers and urban health nurses were not at the desired level and that a
few systems had to be put in place. The Commissioner had asked the
medical officers and the urban health nurses or sector health nurses at
the maternity homes to record in writing the visits, particulars and
every detail about the pregnant women who visited the homes for
consultation or delivery.
This had brought in
accountability and urban health nurses visited the pregnant women. The
measure, coupled with weekly review of the progress, had produced the
desired result, the sources said.
