हिंदी
Chandigarh, August 26 – Haryana Health Minister, Mr. Anil Vij said that the state has recorded a decline of 4.6 percent in the infant mortality rate (IMR) from April to June in the year 2020 as compared to the same period in the year 2019.
Mr. Vij said this in response to the Calling Attention Motion laid on the table during the Vidhan Sabha session today wherein the data of the Civil Registration System (CRS) was analysed. But in some newspapers, the figure was erroneously mentioned as 46 percent. He said that online registration has been made compulsory by the office of Registrar Birth and Death by all Registration Centres on the portal crsorgi.gov.in since January 1, 2020. The Health Minister stated that no orders to stop or discontinue OPD services in health institutions were issued by the Office of the Director General of Health, on the contrary all medical institutions have provided medico-legal services, along with emergency services and maternal and child health services have been provided continuously. Besides, during the lockdown when the patients were unable to reach health institutions for treatment, mobile health teams were deployed by the Health Department to reach out to patients, elderly, children and pregnant women across the state.
Along with this, necessary medicines were also supplied to the people. Apart from this, at present the facilities of all services like OPD, IPD, Surgery etc. are being provided by all health institutions.
