Mother and child tracking centre opens

SHILLONG: The National Health Mission (NHM) on Thursday, in collaboration with GVK-EMRI has started operations of the MCTS (Mother and Child Tracking Centre) for Meghalaya.
The two seater operation will be based out of the Emergency response centre of GVK EMRI 108 operations at Shillong and the objective of the MCTS project is to track, verify all pregnant women in the state and advise them on institutional delivery and also verify if key checkups like ANC (ante natal checkups) checkup have been done, which will help reduce the MMR (Maternal mortality rate) and IMR (Infant Mortality rate) in the state.
While in the process of verification, pregnant women would be educated regarding the risks of delivery at home, inform the pregnant women about the free services provided by Government like free referral transport, drop back facilities, monetary incentives under JSSK scheme.
The data maintained and verified would be useful for future references.