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Volume 12 Issue 1 (January- March) 2023

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Evaluation of JSSK Programme in urban field practice area of Guru Gobind Singh Medical College, Faridkot
Dr. Harpreet Kaur, Dr. Shalini Devgan, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Dr.Gaganpreet Singh, Dr. Hobinder Arora, Dr. Urvashi, Dr. Nishu Dihana

Introduction: For building healthy nation, the primary focus is given to promote and protect maternal health. Maternal health is intimately associated with the child care and child health. So, protection and promotion of the health of the mothers and children is of prime importance. Government of India has launched Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakaramto reduce out-of-pocket expenditure in the utilization of antenatal care, institutional delivery, and post-natal and neonatal care. Hence, present study is carried to assess the service awareness, utilization and assess the satisfaction of beneficiaries regarding services under JSSK. Material and Methods: The study was conducted in urban area of district Faridkot among women who delivered within last 1 year. A total of 170 women was selected using simple random sampling. Data was collected using self-structured pre-tested and validated tool and analyzed using suitable statistical software. Results: Overall, 97.6% of the women were aware about the free and cashless delivery and utilized by 87.6% mothers. Almost 82.9%were aware about free transport facility and 72.5% of women had utilized free transport services.The benefits provided topregnant womenwere found to be independently influenced by education of the respondents.Conclusion:The majority of beneficiary mothers were aware about free delivery care under JSSK. However, utilization of the benefits was not achieved universally among all the beneficiaries. Further efforts are needed to increase the overall awareness and utilization of various entitlements of JSSK among pregnant women and thus indirectly helping in reducing MMR and IMR. Interpersonal communication through frontline health workers played a prominent role in generating awareness.

 
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