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Auxillary Nurse Midwife


The responsibilities of ANM who would be looking after a unit of 5,000 population would be as follows :

1 Registration of pregnant women, married women in reproductive age group, and children through systematic home visits and at the clinics;
2 Categorization of the eligible couples according to the number of children and age of mothers;
3 Care of pregnant women during the period of pregnancy;
4 Advice on nutrition to expectant and nursing mothers;
5 Distribution of iron and folic acid tablets to pregnant women and nursing mothers and Vitamin A solution to children;
6 Immunization of pregnant women with tetanus toxoid;
7 Conducting about 50% deliveries in her intensive area (covering about 3000 population);
8 Referral cases of abnormal pregnancy and case with medical and gynaecological problems to hospital;
9 Supervision of deliveries conducted by traditional dais (birth attendants).
10 Referral of case of difficult labout and new borns with abnormalities and helping them to get institutional care and providing follow-up care to patitnet referred to or discharged from hospital;
11 Conducting post delivery visits for each delivery case and rendering advice regarding feeding of the new born;
12 Giving family planning education to couples and motivating them for the same;
13 Distribution of conventional contraceptives to the couples and helping prospective adopters in getting family planning services;
14 Identification of cases that require medical help for termination of pregnancy, providing information on the availability of services and referring them to the nearest appropriate institution;
15 Arranging and helping the MO and LHV in conducting MCH and family planning clinics at the sub-centres.
16 Educating mothers individually and in groups in better family health including MCH and family planning, nutrition, immunization, hygiene and minor ailments;
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