Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 31 December 2021

Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan

✅ launched by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India.

✅ The program aims to provide assured, comprehensive and quality antenatal care, free of cost, universally to all pregnant women on the 9th of every month.

✅ Under the campaign, a minimum package of antenatal care services is to be provided to the beneficiaries on the 9th day of every month at the Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Clinics to ensure that every pregnant woman receives at least one checkup in the 2nd/ 3rd trimester of pregnancy. If the 9th day of the month is a Sunday / a holiday, then the Clinic should be organized on the next working day.