The Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) was introduced in December 2009. MCTS is a comprehensive
system which facilitates in ensuring timely delivery of full spectrum of health
care services to pregnant women and children up to 5 years of age through name
based tracking of each beneficiary. This is expected to help in reduction of
infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR).
This is being done by:
·
Capturing
detailed information of beneficiaries like unique ID, name, address, contact
details, location and caste.
·
Generation
of work-plan for ANMs and ASHAs
for timely delivery of due service to beneficiaries.
·
Use of
mobile-based SMS technology to communicate with beneficiaries and grassroots
level health care service providers as
well as heath and family welfare policy makers, health managers and health
administrators at different tiers of the health care delivery system.
·
FAQ and
Notice Board for redressing the query of health providers and coordinators and
providing news and notifications of States and MOHFW to all users.
The Mother and Child Tracking System has
been introduced in all the districts and Health Blocks of the country.
An end to end solution integrating MCTS with CPSMS has been
developed to facilitate payments directly into the bank accounts of the
beneficiaries. In all 2,14,725 beneficiaries have been paid an amount of
Rs.18,70,63,390, through online transactions directly into their account, till
4th December, 2013.
This
was stated by Shri. Ghulam Nabi
Azad, Union Minister for Heath and Family Welfare, in
a written reply to the Rajya Sabha
today.
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