Family Welfare Services
Family welfare services aim to improve the health and well-being of families by providing a variety of services, including:
- Family planning: Information, counselling, and services for women to help with healthy reproduction
- Education: Information on safe delivery and post-delivery care for the mother and baby, as well as treatment for women before pregnancy
- Immunization: Healthcare for infants to immunize them against preventable diseases
- Antenatal, natal, and post-natal care: Registration of pregnant mothers, antenatal care, and post-natal care
- Sterilization: Sterilization facilities for willing parents
- Medical termination of pregnancy: Services available in both public and private facilities
- Marriage counselling: A service that helps couples cope with life problems
- Family-life education: Services that help enrich family relationships and improve home economics
- Homemaker services: Services that provide household assistance to families with chronic illness, handicaps, or other dependencies
- Care of the aged: Services such as in-home meal services, transportation, regular visitation, and reduced-cost medicines