‘Bedi Hospital’ organize Lecture on ‘Safe mother, Safe Family’

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Chandigarh 22^nd November:-- There were no artificial diets for the newborns earlier and mothers were happy to feed their babies. However, now the trend has totally changed. Mothers and family members do not actually want to waste time in breast feeding the newborn. The need is to make them understand that by doing this, they are making their children prone to diseases and reducing their immunity. In a bid to do that, the 'Bedi Hospital' in collaboration with Family Planning Association of India, is celebrating the International Newborn Week.

 

After giving educative lectures to as many as 3000 working ladies of the Tricity, under the mission of 'Safe mother, Safe Family', for the corporate sector, Dr G.K Bedi, life member of Family planning Association of India, has given questionnaires to them. The results were that 60 per cent (1,800) working women wanted Caesarian deliveries, 30 per cent (900) did not want to breast feed the child and 70 per cent (2,100) of only wanted a single child.

 

Dr. GK Bedi explained that there was no such hospital that caters to the mother and child together. "Bedi Hospital is the only one in Tricity, which gives 24-hour OPD facilities for the mother and    child. There is team of neonatologist and obstetricians available round-the-clock. Under the mission 'Safe Mother, Safe Family', we held many activities with our patients where we taught them techniques of feeding and nurturing the child. We also gave them household tips to increase the immunity of the mother as well as the child," she said.

 

IMA president Dr Ramneek Bedi explained that these days in daily OPDs, there were 15-20 newborns coming with complaints of fever, low weight etc while five years ago there was hardly any such case. "Forget about the downtrodden families, we are talking about the higher strata of society. Bedi Hospital celebrated this week by generating awareness about safe delivery practices, newborn care, high risk deliveries, vaccinations, antenatal care et al," he said.