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MEDICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES
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FAMILY PLANNING
To check the excessive growth of the population, family planning centres were set up at various places in both urban and rural areas. In 1958 five such centres were set up at Arjuni-Morgaon, Tirora, Tumsar, Salekasa and Pauni.
Subsequently a separate unit was established through which effective family
planning propaganda is carried out in the whole district. Besides other
hospitals and dispensaries, the General Hospital, Bhandara, runs a separate
department to look after the family planning work for the urban areas. This
department is controlled by a coordinator with the help of one female field worker. Under the family planning programme vasectomy and tubectomy operations were performed on 3,191 persons and 3,954 loops were inserted against the target of 3,732 operations and 7,130 loops, respectively during the year 1966-67. |
