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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Special Correspondent

Govt. portal for women to self-register pregnancies

The Directorate of Public Health on Friday launched a portal to enable pregnant women to self-register for the unique RCH number. The number is mandatory to obtain birth certificates.

Pregnancy and Infant Cohort Monitoring and Evaluation system was introduced in 2008 to enable registration of pregnancies and encourage institutional childbirth.

Until now village health nurses registered the pregnancies. However, based on opinions received from beneficiaries it had been decided to develop a portal, Health Minister Ma. Subramanian said after the launch of the website https://picme.tn.gov.in/picme_public

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