Baby boy delivered at Jorhat Boat Clinic

A baby boy was delivered on 13th February, 2011 at Ghuria sapori in upper Assam’s Jorhat district, under the supervision of Dr Aeron Momin and Dr Debadip Dey, Medical Officers of the Jorhat Boat Clinic. The Boat Clinic health outreach programme reaches out to the state’s vulnerable population who live on islands on the Brahmaputra with a special focus on women and children, who are the most vulnerable in difficult conditions. Providing ANC, PNC checkups along with advocating institutional deliveries has been priority with all the health teams especially crucial for a state like Assam which has India’s worst Maternal Mortality rate at 480, higher than Bihar or Uttar Pradesh, and a high Infant Mortality Rate.

There have been eight successful, safe deliveries conducted on the boat clinics till date – Four in Dibrugarh, two in Dhemaji, one in Barpeta and this latest one in Jorhat.