Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh, November 26-
In a bid to improve maternal and newborn care, Punjab cabinet minister Dr Balbir Singh on Tuesday, launched a mobile-app “Sirjan", a cutting-edge digital platform aimed at empowering healthcare providers to deliver comprehensive care during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period.
The Health Minister was accompanied by Mission Director National Health Mission-cum-special secretary Health and Family Welfare Punjab Ghanshyam Thori, Director Family Welfare Dr Jasminder and Deputy Director Mother and Child Health Divison Dr Navjot. Jhpiego under Born Healthy Program supported the Government of Punjab in developing Sirjan.
Dr Balbir Singh, while addressing the gathering said that the android-based application will prove as a game-changer auxiliary nurse midwives (ANMs) and medical officers in tracking high-risk pregnancies to deliver comprehensive antenatal, intra-partum and postnatal care. It will also strengthen the identification, tracking, and management of high-risk pregnancies, ensuring timely and appropriate care, he said, while adding that it also facilitates a continuum of care for the beneficiary from antenatal period to post delivery period.