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Basaveshwar Hospital launches free institutional delivery scheme called Matru Sanjeevini

To commemorate the 101st birth anniversary of Mahadevappa Rampure, founder president of Hyderabad Karnataka Education Society (HKES), the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Basaveshwar Teaching and General Hospital (BTGH) run by HKES in Kalaburagi, has launched a new scheme called Matru Sajeevini providing free institutional delivery.

HKES president Bheemashankar Bilgundi, addressing a press conference here on Thursday, said that though Mr. Rampure’s birth anniversary is on August 1, the scheme will be implemented at both Basaveshwar and Sangmeshwar hospitals [a unit of HKES] with immediate effect.

Along with a comprehensive and quality ante-natal care such as health check-up and diagnosis, the hospitals will conduct deliveries both normal and Ceasarian section free and provide a maternity allowance of ₹2,000, Mr. Bilgundi clarified.

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