According to Sample Registration System 2016, state’s infant mortality rate is 45.4 per 1,000 live births as compared to India’s IMR of 38.7
Seven more districts in the state will soon have mother’s milk bank as the government is further expanding its ambitious scheme in more districts in order to control infant mortality and prevent malnutrition in children by providing infants mother’s milk soon after birth. This is the next stage after successful establishment and encouraging results of 10 mother’s milk banks at various district hospitals, where mothers can donate their fresh milk for those infants whose mothers are unable to breastfeed them.
“Last week we got in principle nod to establish seven new mother’s milk banks,” Devendra Agrawal, consultant to the state government told DNA.
“These banks will be established in Sirohi, Rajsamand, Jalore, Barmer, Sawai Madhopur, Karauli and Dholpur. These seven districts have been selected just because of having high Infant Mortality Rate (IMR). We have started the process of identifying appropriate space at these districts headquarters,” said Agrawal.
According to Annual Health Survey 2012-13, Jalore, Barmer, Karauli, Sawai Madhopur, Sirohi, Rajsamand and Dholpur has IMR of 72, 70, 69, 67, 65, 59 and 58 death per 1000 births respectively which is far more than that of state at 55. According to Sample Registration System (SRS) 2016, state’s infant mortality rate is 45.4 per 1,000 live births as compared to India’s IMR of 38.7.
“This has been proved beneficial for thousands of mothers who suffer from hyper-lactation and infants whose mothers are ill. These new banks will be established with the budget of Rs5 crore for which file has been moved to finance department, hopefully it will be approved in a couple of days,” said Agrawal.
COUNT SO FAR
At present the state has 13 human milk banks at 10 district hospitals in Beawer (Ajmer) Alwar, Banswara, Baran, Bhilwara, Bharatpur, Bundi, Chittorgarh, Churu, Sawai Madhopur and Tonk, at Rabindra Nath Tagore Medical College in Udaipur, at Sawai Man Singh Medical College in Jaipur run by the Norway government, and one in private Mahatma Gandhi Medical College in Jaipur.
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