Consider the following statements in relation to Janani Suraksha Yojana:
- 1.It is a safe motherhood intervention of the State Health Departments.
- 2.Its objective is to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality among poor pregnant women.
- 3.It aims to promote institutional delivery among poor pregnant women.
- 4.Its objective includes providing public health facilities to sick infants up to one year of age.
How many of the statements given above are correct?
Answer & explanation
Answer: (b) Only two
Only statements 2 and 3 are correct. Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) is a centrally sponsored safe motherhood scheme under the National Health Mission that promotes institutional delivery among poor pregnant women to cut maternal and newborn deaths. Free care for sick infants comes from a different scheme, JSSK.
- ✗ 1. The Health Ministry describes JSY as a safe motherhood intervention under the National Health Mission and as a centrally sponsored scheme, not a scheme of the State Health Departments.
- ✓ 2. Reducing maternal and neonatal mortality is the stated objective of JSY, which targets poor pregnant women.
- ✓ 3. JSY pursues that objective by promoting institutional delivery, with cash assistance linked to delivery and post-delivery care, and ASHA workers as the link to pregnant women.
- ✗ 4. Treatment of sick newborns and infants up to one year in public health institutions, free of charge, is the job of Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK, 2011), not JSY.
Remember · JSY (2005): centrally sponsored, under NHM, cash aid to poor women for institutional delivery. Sick infants up to one year are covered by JSSK, a separate scheme.
Sources
- Janani Suraksha Yojana, National Health Mission (MoHFW) ↗ “is a safe motherhood intervention under the National Health Mission. It is being implemented with the objective of reducing maternal and neonatal mortality by promoting institutional delivery among poor pregnant women.”
- Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram, National Health Mission (MoHFW) ↗ “similar entitlements have been put in place for all sick newborns and infants (up to one year of age) accessing public health institutions for treatment.”
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