Chief Minister Conrad Sangma has said that the Meghalaya’s Outcomes oriented Transformation in Health, nutrition, Education and Rural development Programme or MOTHER app has brought down the state’s Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR).
“Using this technology and through the other programs of the state government for safe motherhood we have been able to reduce the maternal mortality rate by 45 per cent and the mobile device that are being given to you today can save and change hundreds of lives,” he said.
Speaking at an event of the Social Welfare Department held in NEHU today, he said that technology is not only changing governance but creating impactful governance helping to achieve goals and targets more efficiently.
He further said that the department is trying to touch different lives in society and announced a program in the pipeline, CM Care +, that would help different patients from economically weak families to meet their treatment needs for critical illnesses.
Sangma urged the anganwadi workers to make the best use of the mobile devices in uploading data for effective implementation, planning and execution of policies and programs. “The information that you will send to us will help us to intervene, make decisions and take actions that will save and change a children’s lives,” he added.
At the programme, the Chief Minister distributed mobile phones to Anganwadi workers, certificates to women in need of care and protection-trades-trained for self-employment, Shillong and Jowai, IIT Innovative EcoH20 Filters to Anganwadi Centres for safe drinking water for children, cheques to new CM Care beneficiaries.
He also felicitated achievers from Children’s Homes, unveiled the foundation stone for construction of Children’s Home (Boys) Nongstoiñ and handed over a cheque for One Stop Centre at Ganesh Das Hospital premises for abused women.
Social Welfare Minister Paul Lyngdoh and Commissioner & Secretary Pravin Bakshi among others were present at the programme.
