Standards for Female and Male Sterilization Services - STATE ...
Standards for Female and Male Sterilization Services - STATE ...
Standards for Female and Male Sterilization Services - STATE ...
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IntroductionThe Development of <strong>St<strong>and</strong>ards</strong> on <strong>Sterilization</strong> <strong>Services</strong> is an important step in ensuring theprovision of quality services to the growing number of clients by programme managers <strong>and</strong>service providers providing permanent methods of contraception. This document sets out thecriteria <strong>for</strong> eligibility, physical requirements, counselling, in<strong>for</strong>med consent, preoperative, postoperative,<strong>and</strong> follow-up procedures, <strong>and</strong> procedures <strong>for</strong> management of complications <strong>and</strong>side effects. It also highlights the salient steps of the surgical procedures <strong>and</strong> the recommendedpractices <strong>for</strong> infection prevention.The st<strong>and</strong>ards laid down in this document apply to both static <strong>and</strong> camp facilities.Programme managers <strong>and</strong> service providers are advised to refer to ‘St<strong>and</strong>ard OperatingProcedures <strong>for</strong> Camps’, being published separately by the Research Studies & <strong>St<strong>and</strong>ards</strong>Division, Ministry of Health <strong>and</strong> Family Welfare (MOHFW).Target audienceThe document apprises doctors, other health personnel, <strong>and</strong> Reproductive <strong>and</strong> Child Health(RCH) programme managers throughout the country of the sterilization st<strong>and</strong>ards that arerequired to be maintained at their facilities.