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It has also decided to release financial assistance to 32 MCD maternity centres in the city.
“The target is to ensure cent per cent institutional births in Delhi,” Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said while underlining the need of expansion of maternity care services.
“The Government will chalk out a policy to ensure reservation of a certain percentage of beds for maternity care services in all city hospitals,” Dikshit said after a review of health services in the Capital.
The chief minister said that due to lack of adequate maternity care it was becoming difficult to provide quality health services to newborn babies and their mothers. “Around 100 in the 200-bedded Kokiwala Bagh hospital will be kept reserved for maternity services. We will also provide huge financial assistance to the MCD for improvement of its 32 maternity centres,” she said.
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