<p class="title">After many years, the BBMP is giving a facelift to its maternity homes, one step at a time. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Beginning from construction and repair, the civic body is planning to focus on improving in each of the existing 24 BBMP maternity homes and six referral hospitals.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier this week, the civic body has invited tenders to provide medical equipment for cardiac monitoring and lighting facilities at operation theatres for these hospitals.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The civic body will also undertake the construction and renovation of maternity homes at SK Garden ward, Bharati Nagar ward and construction of a referral hospital in Ganesha Mandira ward.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to Dr Nirmala Buggi, chief health officer, clinical, BBMP, close to 12,000 children are born at BBMP’s maternity homes per month. “We attend to almost 1.4 lakh deliveries in a year and we want to provide quality healthcare. We are improving the medical equipment in our maternity homes,” she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">BBMP Commissioner N Manjunatha Prasad said the construction and renovation of maternity homes such as the one in Chamarajpet were included in the budget itself.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Though most of these maternity homes are situated in thickly populated areas to provide facilities, especially for people located in slums, many maternity homes are run single-handedly by nurses, and gynaecologists are available only during stipulated hours. This was proved during a surprise inspection by Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara of a maternity home in Ganganagar.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The 2018-19 BBMP budget had earmarked Rs 1.50 crore to provide health kits for postnatal mothers who avail services from maternity homes to maintain health and hygiene.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The civic body had also introduced the ‘Pink Baby’ scheme in the budget to provide Rs 5 lakh fixed deposit for the parents of the girl baby born on the first day of every year in all 24 maternity hospitals, to help them avail better education. </p>
<p class="title">After many years, the BBMP is giving a facelift to its maternity homes, one step at a time. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Beginning from construction and repair, the civic body is planning to focus on improving in each of the existing 24 BBMP maternity homes and six referral hospitals.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier this week, the civic body has invited tenders to provide medical equipment for cardiac monitoring and lighting facilities at operation theatres for these hospitals.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The civic body will also undertake the construction and renovation of maternity homes at SK Garden ward, Bharati Nagar ward and construction of a referral hospital in Ganesha Mandira ward.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to Dr Nirmala Buggi, chief health officer, clinical, BBMP, close to 12,000 children are born at BBMP’s maternity homes per month. “We attend to almost 1.4 lakh deliveries in a year and we want to provide quality healthcare. We are improving the medical equipment in our maternity homes,” she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">BBMP Commissioner N Manjunatha Prasad said the construction and renovation of maternity homes such as the one in Chamarajpet were included in the budget itself.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Though most of these maternity homes are situated in thickly populated areas to provide facilities, especially for people located in slums, many maternity homes are run single-handedly by nurses, and gynaecologists are available only during stipulated hours. This was proved during a surprise inspection by Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara of a maternity home in Ganganagar.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The 2018-19 BBMP budget had earmarked Rs 1.50 crore to provide health kits for postnatal mothers who avail services from maternity homes to maintain health and hygiene.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The civic body had also introduced the ‘Pink Baby’ scheme in the budget to provide Rs 5 lakh fixed deposit for the parents of the girl baby born on the first day of every year in all 24 maternity hospitals, to help them avail better education. </p>