HT Correspondent
TAWANG, Oct 26:Â Saans Bahu Pati Sammelan cum Nayi Pehal kits distribution ceremony was organised by the District Health Society NHM Tawang at KDS district hospital here recently.
Speaking on the occasion as chief guest of the function, Tawang deputy commissioner in charge Rinchin Leta said that the Nayi Pehal kits were distributed not only for family planning but also for maintaining proper spacing between the births of children in a family.
‘This,’ he stressed, “will ensure good health and better recovery period for a mother.”
He asked the ASHAs and Anganwadi workers to give proper awareness in this regard at the grassroot level.
He also informed about the importance and procedures for marriage registration terming it as a legal tool to shield the bonding of marriage.
Tawang DMO Dr Rinchin Neema said that often family planning tools were not accessible to newly married couples due to economic and social reasons.
“The Government has initiated this scheme three years back to facilitate newly married couples with family planning kits through sub centres and health and wellness centres,” he added.
Dr Neema further said that since the traditional system of arranged marriages were not popular nowadays and many marriages began with live in relations, it was decided to conduct this programme and encourage already married couples to maintain proper spacing between children.
He asked ASHA workers to provide kits to those couples who were newly married and to educate them for proper spacing for better health of a child and mother and also to encourage institutional delivery of a child.
Tawang CDPO Dondup Pema highlighted the similar schemes under Women and Child Development department. She informed that Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) is provided in three installments through DBT mode to beneficiaries accounts.
Speaking about marriage registration she said marriage without registration was not legal.
Later Gynaecologist Dr Tenzin Kunga briefed the ASHAs and health workers on mother and child health, and the time required for full body recovery of a mother after child birth.
