Kohima | September 17 : Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu today asserted that women are posed to various health problems, specially relating to child bearing, breastfeeding and child caring, compounded by illiteracy, low education, inequality and poverty. Addressing the advocacy programme on Millennium Development Goal-5, today here at Hotel Japfu Kohima, Nienu said, the complexity of women health is related to reproductive health, pregnancy, family planning, adolescent reproductive health, infertility and sexually transmitted infections adding the same requires comprehensive response in order to manage women’s health problems.
Millennium Development Goals becoming most widely accepted benchmark of development
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have become the most widely accepted benchmark of development efforts by the government, donors and NGOs, he maintained and added that halving income poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, reducing infants and child mortality rates by two-third are included in the MDG objectives. Nienu stated that improving maternal health and universal access to reproductive health are the challenges of MDG 5 where he said issues regarding the same should be put up for healthy discussion.
Disclosing the United Nation adoption of Millennium declaration in 2000 as the MDG he further stated that it requires the entire signatory nations to achieve a series of economic, health and social targets by the 2015. In the process of working out in a new global partnership, eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, promoting gender equality and empowering women, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases are some of the goal and objective of MDG.
Stressing on the vision of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), the Minister revealed that it intend to bring out the outcomes as envisioned in the MDG. He said the National Population Policy (NPP) 2000, the tenth plan document, the National Health Policy (NHP) 2002 and India vision 2020 speaks about minimizing the regional variations in the area of reproductive and child health and population stabilization through an integrated and focused participatory program.
Stating MDG 5 has the main target of reducing the maternal mortality ration by three quarters between 1990 and 2015, the health minister said, accelerating to decline the mortality rate, all women must have to access to high quality delivery care.
Declaring that the state following the launch of NRHM that there has been tremendous support and progress in the field of health at large and specifically with maternal health issues. As maternal health improved, the Ante Natal Care (ANC) registration increased from 58.20% in 2008-09 to 88.40% in 2010-11.
Throwing a giant challenge to the day participants the health minister urged them to utilize the available resources by considering the maternal health with utmost seriousness and added that this should be valued as an investment instead of costing to human development.
Concluding his address, Nienu stated, ‘to me a healthy mother means a healthy child, a healthy child means a healthy nation and a healthy nation means a healthy world. He further invites the entire concerned citizen to work together and materialized key strategies to ensure that women all over the state enjoy health, vitality and prosperity. The minister who accompanied with Deo Nukhu, former President FPAI and present MLA and Advisor, Art & Culture, New & Renewable Energy, Science & Technology, PD H&FW, NRHM Mission Director, Additional Director H&FW etc left for Dimapur to make his way out to Korea for some official assignment.
The advocacy programme which was organized under the aegis of Family Planning Association of India (FPAI), Nagaland Branch in collaboration with the NRHM, department Health & Family Welfare, Nagaland. The FPAI while in its delivering of overview of the day advocacy stated, ‘MDGs are a set of numerical and time bound targets to measure achievements in human and social developments. It further candidly went on to say that MDGS are also a human rights or universal rights-the rights of everyone to health education, shelter and security as enunciated in the universal declaration of human rights and UN Millennium Declaration
Earlier, Narola Chuba compeered the function while Sarah Nuh, President delivered key note address. The function was enlightened with a special melody presented by Mhonthung Tungoe, Program Officer, FPAI, Nagaland Branch. Vote of thanks was proposed by Vincent Belho, Branch Manager FPAI, Nagaland Branch. The day function wind up with a dinner
Millennium Development Goals becoming most widely accepted benchmark of development
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have become the most widely accepted benchmark of development efforts by the government, donors and NGOs, he maintained and added that halving income poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, reducing infants and child mortality rates by two-third are included in the MDG objectives. Nienu stated that improving maternal health and universal access to reproductive health are the challenges of MDG 5 where he said issues regarding the same should be put up for healthy discussion.
Disclosing the United Nation adoption of Millennium declaration in 2000 as the MDG he further stated that it requires the entire signatory nations to achieve a series of economic, health and social targets by the 2015. In the process of working out in a new global partnership, eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, promoting gender equality and empowering women, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases are some of the goal and objective of MDG.
Stressing on the vision of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), the Minister revealed that it intend to bring out the outcomes as envisioned in the MDG. He said the National Population Policy (NPP) 2000, the tenth plan document, the National Health Policy (NHP) 2002 and India vision 2020 speaks about minimizing the regional variations in the area of reproductive and child health and population stabilization through an integrated and focused participatory program.
Stating MDG 5 has the main target of reducing the maternal mortality ration by three quarters between 1990 and 2015, the health minister said, accelerating to decline the mortality rate, all women must have to access to high quality delivery care.
Declaring that the state following the launch of NRHM that there has been tremendous support and progress in the field of health at large and specifically with maternal health issues. As maternal health improved, the Ante Natal Care (ANC) registration increased from 58.20% in 2008-09 to 88.40% in 2010-11.
Throwing a giant challenge to the day participants the health minister urged them to utilize the available resources by considering the maternal health with utmost seriousness and added that this should be valued as an investment instead of costing to human development.
Concluding his address, Nienu stated, ‘to me a healthy mother means a healthy child, a healthy child means a healthy nation and a healthy nation means a healthy world. He further invites the entire concerned citizen to work together and materialized key strategies to ensure that women all over the state enjoy health, vitality and prosperity. The minister who accompanied with Deo Nukhu, former President FPAI and present MLA and Advisor, Art & Culture, New & Renewable Energy, Science & Technology, PD H&FW, NRHM Mission Director, Additional Director H&FW etc left for Dimapur to make his way out to Korea for some official assignment.
The advocacy programme which was organized under the aegis of Family Planning Association of India (FPAI), Nagaland Branch in collaboration with the NRHM, department Health & Family Welfare, Nagaland. The FPAI while in its delivering of overview of the day advocacy stated, ‘MDGs are a set of numerical and time bound targets to measure achievements in human and social developments. It further candidly went on to say that MDGS are also a human rights or universal rights-the rights of everyone to health education, shelter and security as enunciated in the universal declaration of human rights and UN Millennium Declaration
Earlier, Narola Chuba compeered the function while Sarah Nuh, President delivered key note address. The function was enlightened with a special melody presented by Mhonthung Tungoe, Program Officer, FPAI, Nagaland Branch. Vote of thanks was proposed by Vincent Belho, Branch Manager FPAI, Nagaland Branch. The day function wind up with a dinner
