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Ranchi, July 9: A software comes as a solution to help the government keep track of pre-natal and post-natal care.

The National Informatics Centre (NIC) has designed the software to learn about the immunisation of children and the status of pregnant women by (NIC) under the Mamta programme.

“At present, the government is unable to keep track of pre-natal and post-natal care provided to pregnant women and children and thus routine immunisation is getting affected,” said the technical director of NIC, Shahid Ahmed.

The software would track both mother and child-related cases and monitor whether a pregnant woman has taken TT doses and IFA tablets during her antenatal phases, Ahmed pointed out.

The software would also generate a list of beneficiaries, a due list for immunisation among children and also track nutritional as well as antenatal care of pregnant women to achieve reduction in the maternal mortality rate.

“The software is a tool for monitoring and tracking maternal and child health. It is capable of capturing data individual pregnant woman and the newly born children at the Anganwadi-level, which provides name-based data on the mother and child,” Ahmed said.

The objective of the programme is to lower the infant mortality rate, improve the nutritional-level of the child, ensure complete immunisation by keeping track of proper growth of each child, reduce mother mortality rate and the total fertility rate, said the technical director.

“The developed software also throws light on mother and children and helps monitor information on pregnant women and their nutritional status. The complete chart for deadline of immunisation of different vaccines is automatically generated,” added Ahmed.

Through the software the state government started the Mamta programme to overcome these problems. Besides, the software would prepare reports by taking help from anganwadi sevikas.

He added that in every district there is an NIC centre run by the district informative officer (DIC), that will collect data through anganwadi sevikas. “The software would also give suggestions based on the reports,” he added.

NIC plans to redesign the existing application software into a web-based application. The data is to be entered from the primary health centres. Data consolidation of the whole state would take place at the state-level thereby help the department of health to keep track of the above objectives at any time,” added the technical director.