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Table 1 Specific initiatives proposed in district health action plans

From: Decentralised health planning under National Rural Health Mission in Bihar, India

Proposed specific initiatives

Name of the district

Free ambulance services for pregnant women

Gaya

Blood donation camp

Gaya

Monthly village health and nutrition days at Aganwadi centre

Kishanganj, Nalanda and Nawada

Maternal death audit

Arwal, Bhagalpur, Buxar, Gaya, Jehanabad, Samastipur, Siwan, Vaishali and West Champaran.

Health camps through mobile medical units in Mahadalit Tola (Vulnerable groups)

Banka, Begusarai, Bhagalpur, Kaimur and Kishanganj

Training on medical termination of pregnancies and safe abortion to nurses, auxiliary nurse midwives, and medical officers

Aaria, Arwal, Aurangabad, Darbhanga, East Champran, Gaya, Gopalganj, Jamui, Jehanabad, Katihar, Khagaria, Kishanganj, Madhubani, Munger, Muzaffarpur, Nalanda, Nawada, Purnea, Rohtas, Samastipur, Sheohar, Siwan, Vaishali and West Champaran