Women get tips on child care through ‘Chellapillai’
The Hindu
Government hospital in Tiruchi offers home-based newborn care
The Special Newborn Care Unit at Tiruchi Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital and Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to provide home-based newborn care for babies born at the hospital. Collector S.Sivarasu inspected the facility on Friday. The initiative, christened ‘Chellapillai,’ aims to give guidance to new mothers on how to care for their infant at home after the discharge from the hospital. Training will be given on nutritional counselling, stages of child development, breastfeeding and how to hold an infant while doing so, etc.More Related News