CURATED BY – GAURAV SINGHAL | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Saharanpur, A workshop was organized in the new auditorium located in the Collectorate under the chairmanship of District Magistrate Saharanpur Manish Bansal to saturate all the community health centers and district women's hospitals with MNCU (Mother Newborn Care Unit). In the workshop, a blueprint was prepared by meeting with all the medical superintendents and CMOs. DM Manish Bansal has started a campaign to reduce infant mortality rate and improve child health in the district. Under which MNCU and CNCU wards will be built in all the CHCs and District Women's Hospitals of the district. In which mother and child will get modern facilities. Scientific and technical support of Community Empowerment Lab (CEL) will be taken in the construction of MNCU wards. The District Magistrate directed the concerned medical officers to complete this important work in the month of January. He said that the hospitals in which MNCU wards will be ready will be honored on 26 January.

District Magistrate Manish Bansal said that in order to reduce the infant mortality rate in the district and to keep mothers and babies together, Mother Newborn Care Units will be built in all the Community Health Centers and District Women's Hospital. In the MNCU ward, the newborn will be given KMC along with the mother and treated in a better way, which will reduce the maternal and infant mortality rate. In the Mother New Born Care Unit (MNCU) ward, the newborn will be treated along with the mother. The MNCU ward to be built in the district will be prepared with special facilities, where the mother as well as the newborn will be treated by trained staff nurses and doctors. In which the temperature will be kept according to the newborn. In the MNCU ward, the newborn will be given the best facilities along with the mother, which will work to give a new life to the newborn. On this occasion, Chief Development Officer Sumit Rajesh Mahajan, Chief Medical Superintendent District Hospital Dr Ramanand, Chief Medical Superintendent Women's Hospital Dr Indra Singh, Viral Singh from Community Empowerment Lab, all MOICs and other concerned officials were present.