Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on 16 July 2013 announced that
the government would provide free pre-natal health care and ambulance
facilities to pregnant women across the country. Under the Janani
Suraksha Yojna (JSY) scheme pregnant women are provided free medical
treatment during the delivery and post natal care. The Pregnant women
will be given free medical and ambulance facilities from conception to
delivery.
Earlier, all the benefits were provided after the woman delivered
baby in the Government hospital but now free treatment and transport
facility would be provided during the entire pregnancy period as well.
And the baby born would be given free treatment for 1 year. This is the
first scheme of its kind.
These women will also be able to avail free consultation from doctors
at government hospitals for 45 days from delivery and infants will be
given free treatment at the hospitals for one year. The adolescent
children will be provided weekly supplements of iron and Folic Acid to
prevent anaemic diseases in the children.
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