Maternal Health

Project Title

Maternal and Adolescent Health Care Programme

Project Brief

PRASAR with the financial support of The Hans Foundation has been implementing Overall Women and Adolescent Health Care Programme since June 2011 in 127 villages of Banki and Masauli blocks of Barabanki district.

The programme seeks to ensure maternal and adolescent healthcare through awareness and education and strong services delivery system having implication for substantial reduction in infant mortality rate (IMR) and maternal mortality ratio (MMR). The service delivery system involves mobile medical health services with a lady gynaecologist, four staff nurse, one swasthya sakhi in each gram panchayat, coupled with the provision of pathology test and free distribution of medicines.

Coverage

ParticularsTotal Coverage till dateCaste Composition
SCOBC/MuslimsGeneral
No. of Villages (Banki Block)64245828
No. of Villages (Masauli Block)6325.1558.2316.61

Funder: The Hans Foundation