Maternal and Reproductive Health Services in health systems constitutes a large range of curative and preventive health services. This study was done to visualize the utilization of child health services.
It was a community based cross sectional study conducted for a period of 1 year. Multistage sampling was used and the sample size was found to be 575 females. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect the relevant data. Analysis in form of proportion was done using SPSS software.
The utilization of postnatal care was seen to be more in rural area (96.66%). In rural area out of 159 mothers who received ANC only 132(83.02%) mothers gave colostrum to their baby whereas out of 21 mothers who did not receive ANC only11(52.38%) mothers gave colostrum and this difference was found to be statistically significant.
Need of greater co-operation between the govt. and private sector with involvement of the NGO's for wide spread utilization and efficient services.
Maternal, health services, rural area
