Evaluation of Empaneled Service Provider under Chiranjeevi Yojana in Gujarat
The Government of India had given major thrust to lower down maternal and infant mortality by promoting institutional deliveries in family welfare programme. Gujarat has implicitly adopted the same by introducing Chiranjeevi Yojana using voucher system under public private partnership with private gynecologist. Given the reality that the women particularly belonging to BPL may not have adequate financial resource to utilize private medical services and appropriate mechanism to finance the health care in general are not available restricted high infant and maternal mortality. The current study is conduct to assess quality of obstetric care given by the empaneled doctors and their satisfaction level in context to the maternal health-financing scheme. The study was conduct in five pilot districts among 50 empaneled doctors under pre-defined criteria. The pilot experience shows that all most all doctors have better infrastructure but there is shortfall of qualified human resource. In the absence of standard manual and guidelines at policy and programme level, it was difficult to judge the technical competence of doctors. However, information on maternal and infant shared showed the reducing trends. Circulation: Easily available on IIMA site.