HOME-BASED NEWBORN CARE
Home-based Newborn care (HBNC) is launched under NRHM since 2011 and revised in 2014 to incentivize Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) for providing Home-based Newborn Care.
They will visit all newborns according to specified schedule up to 42 days of life to ensure—(a) recording the weight on Mother-child protection card, (b) BCG and first-dose DPT and OPV vaccination, (c) registration of the birth and (d) safety of mother and child till 42 days.
In return, ASHA workers are paid ' 250 for total 6 visits for home deliveries and 7 visits for institutional deliveries.
Further, all newborn discharged from SNCUs or Preterms/LBW are followed up by them on day 0 (discharge), 3, 7, 14, 21 and 42 days and then every 3rd month till one year of life, linked with an incentive of ' 50 per visit per quarter from 3rd month onwards.
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