Lok Sabha Question No. 4821 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-03-28
Subject: Healthcare facilities in  Fatehgarh Sahib
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Dr. Amar Singh

## GOVERNMENTOFINDIA MINISTRY OFHEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENTOFHEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4821 TO BE ANSWERED ON 28.03.2025

## HEALTHCARE FACILITIES IN FATEHGARH SAHIB

## 4821. DR. AMAR SINGH:

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has any proposal to establish/upgrade healthcare facilities, including hospitals and primary health centres in Fatehgarh Sahib of Punjab, if so, the details thereof; and
- (b) whether the Government has taken any measures to improve maternal and child healthcare services in the Fatehgarh Sahib Parliamentary Constituency of Punjab, if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILYWELFARE (SHRI PRATAPRAO JADHAV)

- (a) Under the National Health Mission, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare provides technical and financial support to the States/UTs including State of Punjab to strengthen the public healthcare system including establishment/upgradation of healthcare facilities based on the proposals received in the form of Programme Implementation Plans (PIPs) under National Health Mission. Government of India provides approval for the proposal in the form of Record of Proceedings (RoPs) as per norms & available resources. The details are available in public domain at:

https://nhm.gov.in/index4.php?lang=1&level=0&linkid=57&lid=70

The details of Construction/upgradation works approved under PM Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM) and Fifteenth Finance Commission (FC-XV) at the District Fatehgarh Sahib is at Annexure .

(b): Under National Health Mission (NHM), the Government of India has taken various measures for improving maternal and child health services across all States/UTs including district Fatehgarh Sahib district of Punjab as under:

-  Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), a demand promotion and conditional cash transfer scheme for promoting institutional delivery.
-  Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK) entitles all pregnant woman and sick infants (up to one year of age) delivering in public health institutions to have absolutely free and no expense delivery, including caesarean section. The entitlements include free drugs, consumables, free diet during stay, free diagnostics, free transportation and free blood transfusion, if required. Similar entitlements are also in place for sick infants up to one year of age.
-  Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA) provides pregnant women a fixed day, free of cost, assured and quality antenatal check up by a Specialist/Medical Officer on the 9th day of every month.
-  Extended PMSMA strategy ensures quality antenatal care (ANC) to pregnant
-  women, especially to high-risk pregnant (HRP) women and individual HRP tracking until a safe delivery is achieved by means of financial incentivization for the identified high-risk pregnant women and accompanying Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) for extra 3 visits over and above the PMSMA visit.
-  LaQshya improves the quality of care in labour room and maternity operation theatres to ensure that pregnant women receive respectful and quality care during delivery and immediate post-partum.
-  Surakshit Matritva Aashwasan (SUMAN) provides assured, dignified, respectful and quality healthcare at no cost and zero tolerance for denial of services for every pregnant woman and newborn visiting public health facilities to end all preventable maternal and newborn deaths.
-  Optimizing Postnatal Care aims to strengthen the quality of postnatal care by laying emphasis on detection of danger signs in mothers and incentivization of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) for prompt detection, referral & treatment of such high-risk postpartum mothers.
-  Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Days (VHSNDs) are observed for provision of maternal and child health services and creating awareness on maternal and child-care including nutrition in convergence with Ministry of Women and Child Development.
-  Outreach camps are provisioned for improving the reach of health care services especially in tribal and hard to reach areas. This platform is used to increase the awareness for the Maternal and Child health services, community mobilization as well as to track high-risk pregnancies.
-  Facility Based New-born Care: Special New-born Care Units (SNCUs) are established at District Hospital and Medical College level, New-born Stabilization Units (NBSUs) are established at First Referral Units (FRUs)/ Community Health Centres (CHCs) for care of sick and small babies.
-  Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is implemented at facility and community level for low birth weight/ pre-term babies. It includes early and prolonged skin-to-skin contact with the mother or family member and exclusive and frequent breastfeeding.
-  Community Based care of Newborn and Young Children: Under Home Based New-born Care (HBNC) and Home-Based Care of Young Children (HBYC) program, home visits are performed by ASHAs to improve child rearing practices and to identify sick new-born and young children in the community.
-  Social Awareness and Actions to Neutralize Pneumonia Successfully (SAANS) initiative implemented since 2019 for reduction of childhood morbidity and mortality due to Pneumonia.
-  STOP Diarrhoea initiative is implemented for promoting use of ORS and Zinc and for reducing morbidity and mortality due to childhood diarrhoea.
-  Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK): Children from 0 to 18 years of age are screened for 32 health conditions (i.e. Diseases, Deficiencies, Defects and Developmental delay) under Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) to improve child survival. District Early Intervention Centres (DEICs) at district health facility level are established for confirmation and management of children screened under RBSK.
-  Anemia Mukt Bharat (AMB) strategy is implemented to reduce anemia among six beneficiaries age group - children (6-59 months), children (5-9 years), adolescents (10-19 years), pregnant and lactating women and in women of reproductive age group (15-49 years) in life cycle approach through implementation of six interventions via robust institutional mechanism.
-  Nutrition Rehabilitation Centers (NRCs) are set up at public health facilities to provide inpatient medical and nutritional care to children under 5 years suffering from Severe Acute Malnourishment (SAM) with medical complications with special focus on improving the skills of mothers and caregivers on timely, adequate and appropriate feeding for children.
-  Mothers' Absolute Affection (MAA) Programme is implemented to improve breastfeeding coverage which includes early initiation of breastfeeding and exclusive breastfeeding for first six months followed by counselling on age-appropriate complementary feeding practices.
-  Lactation Management Centres: Lactation Management Units (LMU) are facilities established to ensure the availability of Mother's Own Milk or Donor Human Milk for feeding of sick, preterm and low birth weight babies admitted in Intensive Care Units.
-  Under National Deworming Day (NDD) albendazole tablets are administered in a single fixed day approach via schools and Anganwadi centres in two rounds (February and August) to reduce the soil transmitted helminth (STH) infestation among all children and adolescents (1-19 years).

Further, as per information provided by the State of Punjab, Fatehgarh district has a dedicated 50 -bedded facility to provide comprehensive maternal and child health services.

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## Annexure

## Construction/upgradation works at District Fatehgarh Sahib

## PMAyushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM):

-  One 50 bedded Critical care block (CCB) has been approved for the District Fatehgarh Sahib in FY 22-23 for an amount of Rs. 2375.00 Lakhs (as per PM ABHIM RoP).
-  One Integrated Public Health Lab (IPHL) has been approved for the District Fatehgarh Sahib in FY 25-26 for an amount of Rs.125.00 Lakhs (as per NHM PMS Portal).

## Fifteenth Finance Commission (FC-XV)

-  Construction of 2 Building-less Sub centres (Brongajer SC & Mahadian SC) for an amount of Rs. 28.90 Lakhs each has been approved in FY 21-22 (as per NHM PMS Portal).
-  Construction of 1 Building-less Sub centres (Khanian SC) for an amount of Rs. 28.95 Lakhs has been approved in FY 22-23 (as per NHM PMS Portal).
-  Construction of One Block Public Health Unit (BPHU) at Sanghol for an amount of Rs. 59.96 Lakhs has been approved in FY 21-22 (as per NHM PMS Portal).
-  Construction of 2 Block Public Health Unit (BPHUs) at Chanarthal Kalan & Nandpur Kalour for an amount of Rs. 61.96 Lakhs each has been approved in FY 22-23 (as per NHM PMS Portal).