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Mumbai, February 23, 2024: Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare and Tribal Affairs Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar has urged that Sickle-cell Anaemia screening should be made mandatory in pregnant women’s health check-up.
Chairing a review meeting on implementation and progress of health sector schemes in Maharashtra Dr Bharati Pawar directed the state health department that mass screening in tribal areas for sickle cell anaemia should be increased.
Dr Pawar urged that Sickle-cell Anaemia screening should be made mandatory in pregnant women’s health check-up.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set the goal of eradicating sickle cell disease in the country, reminded the Minister.
Along with this, measures should be implemented for elimination of tuberculosis and as many citizens as possible should be included in the campaign for screening of TB by creating public awareness, urged the Minister.
It was also noted in the review meeting that Kilkari project has been implemented in Gujarat and Maharashtra states. ‘Kilkari’ (meaning ‘a baby’s gurgle’), is a centralized interactive voice response (IVR) based mobile health service which delivers free, weekly, time-appropriate 72 audio messages about pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare directly to families’ mobile phones from the second trimester of pregnancy until the child is one year old.
