Family Planning Association of India (FPAI) implements Minimum Initial Service Package for affected Women and Children

Chennai, December 30, 2022: Family Planning Association of India (FPAI) is implementing Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) in collaboration with like-minded NGOs for affected Women and Children during calamities, said N.Leelavathy, Chairperson, FPAI Chennai Branch during Press Meet today.

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She further said that the Family Planning Association of India is a Voluntary organization established in the year 1949. Its Head Quarters is in Mumbai. This Association is functioning in 18 states of India. It has more than 40 Branches across the country. Chennai Branch is one among them The Branch was started in the year 1969 and currently functioning in Ashok Nagar.

Under the Branch, two Medical Centers, one in K.K.Nagar and the other one in Vadapalani are functioning. The FPAI was instrumental in advocating for Family Planning to be introduced in the country's first 5 year plan in 1952. Thus India became the 1st country in the world to have a family planning program. 

(L to R) Branch Manager Padma Selvi; Chairperson, FPAI Chennai Branch N.Leelavathy; Financial Advisor S.Padmanabhan and Consultant Pasha 

Currently FPAI is a delivering essential health services focusing on Sexual and Reproductive Health. In order to protect the Reproductive Health of the affected population, during calamities, the Association is implementing a project called MISP (Minimum initial service package) in collaboration with like-minded NGOs. We have so far signed MOUS with 3 like-minded NGOs.

One of the objectives of the project is to reduce the Maternal Mortality Rate and Infant Mortality Rate during disasters. We hope this objective will help to some extent in achieving the 3rd goal of the SDG(Sustainable Development Goals) namely to bring down the current maternal mortality rate to 70 per one lakh live births and the current infant mortality rate to 12 per thousand live births by 2030. Under this scheme the Branch conducted 36 Medical Camps in different parts of Chennai, duly following Covid norms, for the affected people during the floods in Chennai in December last year.

Around 3621 people participated in this camp and benefited. Around 2667 of them were women and children. Among the women 98 were pregnant.

The Association has proposed to implement the following disaster relief services for the affected population under MISP project, in future.

• Prevent sexual violence and respond to the need of survivors
• Prevent and reduce morbidity and mortality due to HIV and other STIS
• Prevent excess maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality
• Prevent unintended pregnancies
• Ensure that safe abortion care is available, to the full extent of the law, in health centers and hospitals.

Branch Manager Padma Selvi, Financial Advisor S.Padmanabhan and Consultant Pasha participated in the press conference.

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