ITANAGAR, May 18:Director Family Welfare, K Legu while reviewing the intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight preparedness meeting today said that the maternal death related to pregnancy continues to have large impact on lives of mother and new born which is a matter of great concern.

He exhorted  all the districts to put concerted efforts in achieving zero child death and emphasized on creating continuous awareness and promoting hand washing technique at schools to prevent childhood diarrhoea diseases.

Strongly advocating for breast feeding, Dr Legu underscored that mother first milk (colostrum) should never be wasted  as it contain important antibodies which act as vaccine.

He also reviewed child death cases due to childhood diarrhoea and divulged that CDR is another important strategy to understand the geographical variation leading to death  thereby initiating the state specific child health intervention

Dr Natung in his address said there should be no discrepancy in reporting and those Districts which is lagging behind in training their Medical Officer Staff nurse ANM and ASHA should speed it up.

Dr.Runi Tassung MO Maternal health called for maintaining accurate data of maternal death record and how it  should be maintained  and urged for timely submission  to District MDR committee which will be shared for further course of action.

Dr T Natung   NO Child health NHM , Dr Runi Tassung NO Maternal Health NHM, Dr Muktesh Consultant RMNCHA UNICEF, Dr Meenakshi Agarwal  Consultant RMNCHA NHM presented point presentation.  DMOs and DRCHOs of all districts participated at the meeting.

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