Keep the mother in the room: Haryana sets 1 November to turn all 29 SNCUs into mother-newborn units.

Additional Chief Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, Dr Sumita Misra chaired the 12th meeting of the Executive Committee of the State Health Society, National Health Mission, on Saturday, 22 August 2026. Monday desks reported the directions. A Saturday executive meeting, reported on Monday, is an administrative order set. It is not a completed construction, and it is not a mortality-rate audit by this newspaper.

She directed officials to fast-track construction of eight Mother and Child Health wings and to convert all Special Newborn Care Units into Mother-Newborn Care Units by 1 November, so that mothers remain close to newborns during specialised treatment. Eight wings are the construction ask. 1 November is the conversion deadline. Twenty-nine Special Newborn Care Units are the stock to be converted. Keeping the mother in the same room as the sick newborn is the policy line of the order. A deadline is not a converted ward.

Haryana currently has 29 Special Newborn Care Units, 62 Newborn Stabilisation Units and 527 Newborn Care Corners. Designated First Referral Units have increased to 100 from 40 earlier. The meeting also reviewed First Referral Unit strengthening for emergency obstetric referrals. 29, 62, 527, 100 and 40 are the unit counts on the Saturday card. This desk will not invent a district-wise table, a bed count, or a construction-tender value the tip does not lock.

The Additional Chief Secretary stated that the maternal mortality ratio declined from 127 to 94 and the neonatal mortality rate from 26 to 17. The years for those endpoints are not on the public account used here. This desk will not invent the years. 127 to 94 and 26 to 17 stand as the stated declines without a start-year or an end-year attached.

Thirty-eight specialist doctors have been recruited, covering paediatrics, gynaecology, medicine and anaesthesia. Creches were directed in all district hospitals. Use of ferric carboxymaltose for eligible pregnant women with iron-deficiency anaemia is to be strengthened. Reverse tracking of pregnancies and Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act enforcement, including monitoring and raids, are to be intensified. Thirty-eight is a recruitment count. A creche direction is an order, not a built room. Intensified raids are a direction, not a raid log this page has seen.

Chandigarh is the meeting geography of the State Health Society. Haryana is the service geography. Form B and any poll date are not notified on a health-administration cutting. This desk will not invent a wing-wise completion date short of the 1 November Special Newborn Care Unit conversion line, a specialist posting list, or a maternal-mortality year pair the tip does not carry.

Until the eight wings rise and the 29 units convert, the public ledger is a Saturday National Health Mission executive meeting chaired by Dr Sumita Misra, an order to fast-track eight Mother and Child Health wings, a 1 November deadline to turn every Special Newborn Care Unit into a Mother-Newborn Care Unit, a present stock of 29 Special Newborn Care Units, 62 Newborn Stabilisation Units and 527 Newborn Care Corners, First Referral Units raised to 100 from 40, stated declines of maternal mortality from 127 to 94 and neonatal mortality from 26 to 17 without years, 38 specialist doctors recruited, creches directed in all district hospitals, ferric carboxymaltose use to be strengthened, and Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques enforcement to be intensified. The mother-in-the-room rule is the 1 November test. The years on the mortality lines remain unstated.