Lucknow: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is continuously taking important steps to provide easy, cheap and quality treatment to the people of the state. As a result, there has been a big change in the health infrastructure of the state in the last seven and a half years, which has brought Uttar Pradesh, once called a sick state, to the category of Uttam Pradesh.
Under this, the Yogi government is providing free ultrasound facilities to pregnant women at private ultrasound centers. So far, more than 6 lakh pregnant women have availed the facility. Not only this, the Yogi government is providing free ultrasound facilities to pregnant women at empanelled private ultrasound centers in any district of the state so that they do not have to wander to avail the facility.
Free ultrasound facility being provided at 1,861 private ultrasound centers in the state-
Director of National Health Mission (NHM) Dr. Pinky Jowal said that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is very serious about the health of mother and child. In such a situation, nutritious food is being provided to them along with quality treatment. He informed that as per the intention of CM Yogi Adityanath, the facility of e-rupee voucher for free ultrasound on PPP mode is being made available to pregnant women of the state from February 2023. This facility is being provided at private ultrasound centers under the Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan. The Mission Director informed that 1,861 private ultrasound centers have been empanelled in 75 districts of the state to provide the benefit of the facility. So far, 14,50,238 e-rupee vouchers have been issued to pregnant women by the government. At the same time, 6,81,341 e-rupee vouchers have been availed by pregnant women.
Pregnant women can avail the benefit of e-rupee voucher issued for one month. After this it gets automatically cancelled. At the same time, if the pregnant woman is unable to avail the benefit within the time limit, she can get the e-rupee voucher again. E-Rupee Vouchers for Ultrasound are being issued on 1st, 9th, 16th and 24th of every month. Mission Director Dr. Pinky Jowal said that on the instructions of CM Yogi, e-Rupee vouchers are issued to pregnant women at District Women Hospital, Joint Hospital, CHC along with PHC on 4 PMSMA days of every month, i.e. 1st, 9th, 16th and 24th respectively. She said that in a high level meeting, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has given instructions to campaign and publicize to give more benefits of the facility. In such a situation, on the instructions of CM Yogi Adityanath, Asha workers are going door to door and telling about the facility.
