This decline, extending beyond urban areas, impacts rural couples who wish to beget a child, marking a significant demographic shift and necessitating strategic health interventions.
The state medical education department is implementing Health Management Information System (HMIS) in GMCHs across the state to streamline record-keeping, reduce human error, and cut down waiting time for patients.
The bench led by Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya remarked that deaths due to shortage of manpower and/or medicines are not acceptable and called for details from the State government by Friday.
This development comes just a day after the Union Health Ministry wrote to six states - Maharashtra, Gujarat, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka, which reported a significant rise in Covid cases last week.