HEALTH  POST
(MUNICIPAL MEDICAL SERVICES)

The health post is established for the welfare of the middle class and poor people, residing in urban areas in particular women and children.
Besides distributing medicines and tablets of good quality to people living in poor pecuniary conditions, they are also provided with free medical checkup. In the mornings outpatients are treated, medical checkup to pregnant mothers are done and babies and young children are given medicines after prompt examination. In this centre the following functions are performed:
1,
Weighing of Pregnant Women
2,
Issue of Iron Tablets
3,
Anti-natal and post-natal care.
4,
Immunization
Through fieldwork,particulars of pregnant women are enumerated for proper anti-natal mother care to achieve the goal under MCH performance to avoid maternal as well as infant deaths according to goals fixed by the Govt. The field staff of the centre educate and advise the pregnant women about the care to be taken during pregnancy period, the need to go to hospital for delivery. The check up is regularly done in the centre.
This health post is also propagating the necessity of talking nutritious food and enlighters the public about the importance of self-health and environmental health.
The important national programmes of triple vaccine and other preventive measures,supply of medicines and weighing are implemented in this centre.
This health centre is evincing keen interest and putting efforts to implement the family welfare programme by approaching and advising the women talk to adopt the family welfare sterilization methods and to follow other temporary family methods. This health post has planned to considerably reduce the number of out patients and to encourage more number of sterilizations.
MATERNITY CARE
As stated above,the health post bestows much of its attention in attending to the pregnant women periodically. They are advised about the importance of talking nutritious food,iron tablets etc. This health post is systematically observing the weight of newborn babies and conducting proper medical checkup. This health post has drawn up a programme to completely avoid deliveries at home.
FAMILY WELFARE
Sterilizations are done in the centre itself. After operation proper post operative care is provided.

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