Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma today inaugurated a community health centre and a transit home for expecting mothers at Mawryngkneng in East Khasi Hills district.
“Women were facing a lot of maternity related problems like death during childbirth, multiple pregnancies, high risk pregnancies, anemia etc and there were many reasons attributed to these problems and the health and pregnancy of the woman was also connected to the economic activities of the women,” he said.
He spoke about the Meghalaya Outcome and Transformation in Health, Education and Rural Sector (MOTHER) and how it will take care of the health, education and rural empowerment of women.
The transit home housed in the vicinity of the Mawryngkneng CHC, Sangma said will provide shelter and care to pregnant women who live in far flung areas. “These transit homes give shelter, food and medical care so that they can have safe institutional deliveries and today we have 180 transit homes across the State giving service and care to the high risk mothers and those who live in far flung areas,” he added.
The bed capacity at Mawryngkneng CHC has been increased from six to 30 and efforts will be taken to make the CHC conduct specialized services, he said.
