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Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA) Completes Nine Years

Posted 09 Jun 2025

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PMSMA is based on the premise: If every pregnant woman is examined by a physician once during the PMSMA, the process can result in reduction in the number of maternal and neonatal deaths in our country.

  • Neonatal death refers to the death of a baby in the first 28 days of life.

About Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA)

  • Launched: 2016 by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW).
  • Aim: Provide assured, comprehensive & quality antenatal care (ANC), free of cost, universally to all pregnant women.
  • Guarantee: A minimum package of ANC to women in their 2nd / 3rd trimesters of pregnancy.

Key Features of PMSMA

  • Services Provided by: OBGY (Obstetrics & Gynecology) specialists, radiologists, and physicians (including private doctors).
  • Free ANC services, tests (including 1 ultrasound), and medicines ((Iron and Folic Acid (IFA), calcium) offered on the 9th of each month at public health facilities.
  • Special focus on: Unregistered or missed ANC women, Dropouts, High-risk pregnancies.
  • High-risk pregnancy identification: Green sticker: no risk; Red sticker: high risk.
  • PMSMA complements other existing programs of the government like: Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY), POSHAN Abhiyaan etc.

Key-Achievements of PMSMA

  • Significant improvement in India’s Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR), which declined from 130 per lakh live births in 2014-16 to 80 per lakh live births in 2021-23.
  • Over 6 crore pregnant women have been examined under PMSMA.

Extended PMSMA (E-PMSMA)

  • Launched: In 2022 
  • Aim: To ensure tracing and tracking of High-Risk Pregnant (HRP) women till a safe delivery
  • Key Features:
    • Provision of additional PMSMA Session (Max 4 times in a month).
    • Individual tracking of HRP up to healthy outcome (till 45th day after delivery).
    • SMS alert to beneficiary as well as to the ASHA for registration of HRP & follow-up visits.
  • Tags :
  • Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR)
  • Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan
  • Iron and Folic Acid (IFA)
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