its projects 'Kayakalp' and 'Dnyan Samruddhi' under Rajiv Gandhi performance campaign for 2008-09.
A citation and cash prize of Rs 5 lakh will be handed over to the NMC officials by chief minister Ashok Chavan in a function to be held at Mumbai soon. The Nagpur Municipal Corporation health department had recently implemented several new facilities like issuing birth and death certificates within three days. Under initiative of then additional municipal commissioner Atul Patne and hospital committee chairman Vikas alias Baba Maind, the department also provided free ambulance facility to take pregnant women from their house hold to hospitals and free delivery facilities for poor patients even at private hospitals.
Along with free funeral rites, the civic body has been providing locker facility at all crematoriums to keep the urn of ashes for 2-3 days. Mayor Archana Dehankar and Baba Maind told reporters that after launching of the special facility city healthline, 1290 persons had used it. The hearse van facilities were also used by many families that suffered bereavement, they said.
The phone numbers of healthlines are: 0712-2229990 and 9764442401. Dehankar further said that in case any person needed blood, then an SMS can be sent to the number 56677 in the following manner: info_blood group (eg: info_O+). Turning to the website, Maind said that hundreds of persons logged on to website www.cityhealth-line.org.
NMC has further decided to appoint special women and child specialists at its hospitals to take care of child and women patients, Maind added.
Pulse polio drive on Jan 10
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation, as per directions of state government, will conduct pulse polio drive on January 10 and February 7 across all zones. Mayor Dehankar informed that kids up to five years of age will be administered oral polio dose from 1035 booths. Special booths will also be installed at Railway station, bus stands, temples, shopping malls and construction sites. In all, 10 zonal medical officers, 50 medical officers, 200 supervisors and 3,000 health workers will conduct the drive, she added. Last year 2.71 lakh children were administered polio doses while NMC health teams visited 6,12,588 homes, she added.
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