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AP to launch mobile healthcare services in rural areas
Our Bureau
Hyderabad, Feb. 21
The Government of Andhra Pradesh will launch a ‘Fixed Day Health Service’ scheme (FDHS), and a mobile health vehicle service to provide healthcare services in rural areas. It has accordingly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Health Management and Research Institute (HMRI), a non-profit organisation sponsored by Satyam Foundation, here on Thursday.
The service, likely to be launched in April, would take the health services to the doorsteps of the rural poor residing beyond 3 km from Primary Health Centres, Mr Sambani Chandrasekhar, Minister for Health and Family Welfare, told reporters here on Thursday.
Besides aiding the primary screening of pregnant women to identify risky pregnancies, it would also ensure 100 per cent immunisation of children in the State, he said.
HMRI would act as the implementing agency and operate the mobile health vehicles to offer services such as pregnancy monitoring and care, infant and child health, national health programmes, enhanced integrated disease surveillance programmes and school health.
The FDHS would initially be launched in Adilabad, Mahaboognagar, Srikakulam and Anatapur with 100 mobile units, the Minister added. In addition, the capacity of health information helpline, a toll-free telephone service on 104, would be enhanced to 12,000 to 50,000 calls per day.
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