Projects in Technical Assistance

 Technical Assistance to the Government of Jharkhand to Operationalize First Referral Units
 Implementing Agencies:
Public Health Foundation of India
 Geographic Scope:
Jharkhand 
 Duration: 7 months
 Contact Person: ---
 Resource Material: Resource Material  

Project Description: To reduce maternal and neonatal mortality, the national government has placed strategic importance on operationalizing First Referral Units (FRUs) to provide basic emergency obstetric care and newborn services.

The government of Jharkhand is focusing its efforts to expand and improve the quality of services at FRUs for the management of obstetric and neonatal complications round-the-clock and has requested the assistance of the MCH-STAR Initiative, through PHFI to operationalize 12 such units. ...More»