The district administration monitors about 1,400 deliveries, 46 a day, every month by tracking the health of pregnant women from the date of conception to delivery.
District Collector Manickaraj Kannan has designed an expected date of delivery (EDD) calendar in which the details of pregnant women, their blood group, relatives to be called in emergency and phone numbers of them or their close relatives are mentioned.
A few days before the date of delivery, the officials call the pregnant woman and enquire about her health and inform her when to go to the hospital for delivery. If it’s a second or a third delivery with the first being a C-Section, the woman would be guided on how to go about her delivery. “We are making an extra effort and we see a sea change in the functioning of the Health and Education Departments. With the help of EDD, the doctors at primary health centres (PHC) will be able to identify the patients which makes the interaction easier,” said Mr. Manickaraj, while speaking to reporters here on Thursday.
He said they have received queries from other districts evincing interest in knowing more about the system to follow it. Referring to the changes made in the Education Department, the Collector said they have conducted a special test for about 11,500 students of class 10 to assess their capability. Based on the test, certain measures would be taken to improve their learning skills. “Many teachers who have done B.Ed. long ago do not know what Continuous and Comprehensive Evolution (CCE) is and hence, we have to offer them training with the help of district resource persons,” he said.
“We have created grades from A to K in which K means a student is at the zero-level learning. As the grading difference from one level to another is only two marks, it will not be a Herculean task for students. This will improve the confidence levels of students,” said Mr. Manickaraj.
DM&HO Gayatri Devi, DEO L. Chandrakala and others were present.
