Bhagalpur: Accredited Social Health Activists (Ashas) are being given training by officials of the Ministry of Health and Coach experts in the district so that they can provide health care services to pregnant women and and act as support systems for them especially in rural areas.
Officials said Asha workers were also trained under the Aegis Pradhan Mantri Sureshit Matritva Abhiyan.
They will advise pregnant women, tell them about precautions to be taken during pregnancy and also find out the expected delivery date.
Master Trainers Seema Kumari, Sunil Kumar and Rajesh Kumar In addition to the team of doctors, including District Health Immunization (Dhio) Dr.
Manoj Kumar Chowdhary, Director of Regional Health Dr.
Suresh Prasad Sinha, Arun Prakash Regional Program Officer, Regional Coordinator (Asha) Kunal Kumar and who Others were involved in the Asha worker training.
Dhio Dr.
Manoj Kumar Chowdhary said the team and coach doctors strive to prepare for Asha workers so that they can help pregnant women in rural areas and provide better health services to them.
“Identification of pregnant women through a household survey and providing health care services in the doorway is the purpose of the training program.
Asha workers will help pregnant women if they need hospitalization or pathological tests,” he said.
He added, “The main coaches also tried to create awareness of the provisions that were immortalized in the termination of Medical Act (MTPA) in 1971 among Asha workers so that they could advise women about their responsibilities and tasks to terminate certain pregnancies..
Asha worker too Trained to create awareness among women about the need to have nutritious food during pregnancy and how to take care of their newborns.
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Ashas is trained to help pregnant women
