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SUMAN Roadmap 2030
The Health Minister launches the SUMAN Roadmap 2030 at the 16th Conference of the Central Council of Health and Family Welfare (CCHFW). The roadmap is a strategic framework to strengthen maternal and newborn healthcare across India, with defined targets for mortality reduction by 2030.
SUMAN Roadmap 2030:
| Dimension | Key Details |
|---|---|
| Nature | It comprises a strategic framework to strengthen maternal and newborn healthcare across the country. |
| Quantitative target (MMR) | It provides for lowering India’s Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) to below 70 per 1 lakh live births by 2030. |
| Targets (NMR and IMR) | It provides for reducing the Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR) and the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR). |
| Framework anchor | It is anchored in RMNCHA+N (Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health + Nutrition). |
| Life-cycle approach | It integrates interventions from pre-pregnancy through pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period. |
| Convergence | It mandates convergence with child health, adolescent health, family planning, and nutrition programs. |
| High-risk pregnancy management | It provides for structured interventions across 4 critical stages: antenatal, third-trimester, intrapartum, and postnatal stages. |
| Targeted coverage | It applies to focused interventions in 130 districts across 13 high-focus States, including Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal. |
| Strengthening infrastructure | It provides for strengthening infrastructure through Birth Waiting Homes, Maternal and Child Health Wings, Obstetric high dependency units (HDUs), and ICUs in underserved areas. |
| Bi-weekly home visits | It mandates that an Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA), who is a trained community health worker, visits a pregnant woman’s home twice a week. |
| Community participation | It comprises community participation measures: SUMAN Panchayats, Mothers’ Picnic initiatives, and caregiver support during the postnatal period. |
| Newborn care practices | It encourages positive newborn care practices among local mothers. |
| Digital innovation | It provides for digital innovation through AI-enabled labour rooms, the JANANI Portal for monitoring, and a SUMAN Call Centre for grievance redressal. |
| Emergency support | It provides for emergency support through referral transport incentives and deployment of Non-Pneumatic Anti-Shock Garments (NASG) for haemorrhage management. |
| Integration | It links with Samagra Shishu Bal Swasthya Karyakram (SSBSK) for home-based child care up to 36 months. |
| SDG alignment | It aligns India’s efforts with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). |