Jamshedpur, April 6: The East Singhbhum district administration seems to be pleased as of now, thanks to the outstanding results it got in several health-related activities.

To start off, the rise in the number of delivery cases in the sub-centres across different blocks show that people are now coming more to these sub-centres than hospitals.

Based on these figures, the administration has decided to extend the facility to other sub-centres as those in Mango and Birsanagar.

“The figures which we received last month have been outstanding and that is why we have decided to introduce it at other sub-centres as well. More and more people opting to get their deliveries done in these sub-centres is a healthy sign,” East Singhbhum deputy commissioner Nitin Madan Kulkarni told The Telegraph.

If one takes the figures of deliveries in various blocks, one finds that Chakulia block tops the list with 40 deliveries in March. While Behragora registered 13 deliveries, Ghatsila recorded 35.

Administrative officials said the total figure stood at 280 for March, which was encouraging. “The basic idea is to provide the facility to the people and it seems that the administration’s efforts have not gone down in vain and people now are ready to get it done in sub-centres as well,” a senior official said.

And if that was not enough, the administration has conducted more than 5,000 family planning operations in the last fiscal.

Moreover, there was an outstanding reduction in the number of malnutrition cases in the entire district, especially after the administration undertook a massive programme to to identify the malnourished children in the district, which involved officials going to each household, providing medicines as well generating awareness.

Kulkarni pointed out that was a 35-40 per cent decrease in the cases of malnutrition. While there were around 2,331 cases under Grade III till last September, it dropped to 934 till this March. The case is almost similar in the Grade IV cases as well, Kulkarni added. In Grade IV till September, there were about 350 cases, which scaled down to just 78 till this March.