SMS Reporting of Maternal, Infant Death and Institutional Delivery

Government of West Bengal
Directorate of Health Services
State Family Welfare Bureau
Swasthya Bhavan, A – wing, 3^rd Floor
GN – 29, Sector – V, Salt Lake
Kolkata – 700 091

Memo No. H/SFWB/263(18) Date: 14.03.2012

To
The Chief Medical Officer of Health (All Districts)

Sub: SMS based reporting of Maternal, Infant death and Institutional Delivery.

This is for your information that like OPD tracking through SMS, tracking of Maternal, Infant death and institutional delivery through SMS has been undertaken by Dept. of Health & Family Welfare, GoWB by developing software from 25^th February 2012. In this respect a sensitization workshop had already been conducted at State level with the superintendents of the institutions having more than 100 beds and providing services for mother and child on 24^th February 2012 where superintendents were directed to send the SMS to +91 9163344455 in the following format:

DR (Space) Facility Code (Space) MD (Number of pregnant mother admitted today) Space (Number of mothers died today) Space TD (Number of delivery today) Space ID (Total Number of infant admitted plus delivered today) space (Number of infant died today).

For example if we presume that the following details is available with the superintendent

Facility Code: FC0001
Number of PW admitted today: 12
Number of mothers died today: 2
Total Number of delivery today: 23
Number of infant admitted plus live birth today: 33
Number of infant died today: 3

Then the SMS will look as follows:

DR FC0001 MD 12 2 TD 23 ID 33 3

For this reporting please remember the following:

1. The mobile number from which the SMS will be made fixed and unit specific and has to be registered.
2. The SMS has to be send between 11 AM to 4.00 PM and after which no SMS will be received and the unit will be shown as defaulter.
3. Today means: Report for the just previous day i.e. if the SMS is forwarded on 23/03/2012 the report will cover the report from 12 midnight to 12 midnight of 22/03/2012.
4. This report has to be submitted even on Sunday and Government holidays.
5. No backlog report will be accepted by the software.
6. The data to be captured from all the related ward like
a) For pregnant mother from Antenatal, Post natal, Eclampsia ward, Labour room and high dependency ward (if available)
b) For infant from Paediatric, Neonatal, Postnatal/ metrnity ward, SNCU/ SNSU, NICU, PICU, Nursery & Labour room.
7. A SMS alert will be sent to the defaulting units by 3:30 PM after getting the alert the unit has to send the SMS immediately.

Chief Medical Officer of Health and the principal of the teaching institutions is eligible to look into the data by clicking OPD tracking in website www.wbhealth.gov.in. As MCS data and report.

Now it has been observed that all the units are not reporting daily. You are requested to look into the matter personally and guide the superintendents so that the report may be available from all the units. Please note that there is no need of sending data through SMS and e.mail as existing at present.

A list of institution along with their facility code and designated mobile number is annexed for your ready reference. Please share this with all the superintendents.

Addl. Director of Health Services (FW) &
State Family Welfare Officer

No. H/SFWB/263 dated 14.03.2012, Source