CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Haryana became the first Indian state to launch High-Risk Pregnancy (HRP) portal which helps in early identification of high-risk pregnant cases up to the grass-roots level and ensures their timely referral to the civil hospitals for further management and delivery by specialists.

Detailed explanation-2: -The term high risk pregnancy is used by health care providers to demarcate a pregnancy in which a mother, her foetus or both are at higher risk of developing complications during pregnancy or child birth than in a normal pregnancy.

Detailed explanation-3: -[3] In India, about 20%–30% of pregnancies belong to the high-risk category, which is responsible for 75% of perinatal morbidity and mortality.

Detailed explanation-4: -If you’re 17 years old or younger or 35 years old or older, your pregnancy could generally be considered “high-risk.” Women tend to have a window of time when it’s easier on their body to grow a baby and give birth.

Detailed explanation-5: -The ‘high – risk’ antenatal women are: o Elderly primi (primi ≥ 30 yr.) o Pregnancy associated with general disease like cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, DM, TB, liver disease, malaria, convulsions, asthma, HIV, RTI, and STI etc.