ARTH has been providing RCH services in its field area through three rural health centres at Iswal, Lakmawato ka Guda and Suawaton ka Guda. At Urban health clinic and Paneriyo ki Bhagal Clinic, nurse midwives provide RCH services from 9 am to 5 pm 6 days a week with weekly visits by gynaecologists. At rural health clinics centres, nurse-midwives provide RCH services and emergency services round the clock. A gynaecologist visits the centres once a week.
The RCH services provided at the health centres include :
ARTH’s trained nurse-midwives use a Basic Model of Midwifery and provide a wide range of maternal-neonatal services and managing complications in the absence of a doctor. An active system of referral (counselling for decision making, arranging transport, accompanying the patient till referral hospital) allows the majority of patients to receive emergency care for complications.