The National Health Mission (NHM) of Assam has taken numerous measures, including visits by the state team across 34 districts to improve maternal and child health.

According to the Mission Director of NHM – Dr. M S Lakshmi Priya, the team stays in the district for three days to review maternal and newborn fatalities and other health-related aspects.

The measures include organizing a monthly consultation-cum-review conclave in the districts and special health camps. The NHM mission director asked the state government to reduce maternal and newborn deaths if a targeted approach is adopted.

The state has registered 289 maternal fatalities in the April–September period of 2022-23, as against 384 during the corresponding period in 2021-22.

The number of child deaths has declined from 3,842 in 2021-22 (April-September) to 3,523 in 2022-23.

A monthly consultation-cum-review conclave, ‘Swasthya Manthan’, was organized by the NHM in all the districts. The conclave is attended by all the district health teams and development partners to review the district-wise performance on health indicators and to take future course corrections.

Another programme, ‘Swasthya Sewa Abhiyan’ (SSA), or Special Health Camps, has been taken up in identified blocks of all the districts to facilitate comprehensive health services in one platform.

Altogether 9,384 patients were examined in the first special health camp, with 23,483 patients screened during the second camp.