SUMAN Roadmap 2030

About SUMAN Roadmap 2030

• The SUMAN Roadmap 2030 is a comprehensive national strategy to accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to maternal and newborn health.
• Objective: The framework seeks to reduce the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) to below 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030.
  • It also aims to lower neonatal and infant mortality rates and advance the goal of zero preventable maternal and newborn deaths.
• Developed by: It has been developed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. 
  • It is spearheaded by the Maternal Health Division of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare under the RMNCHA+N framework.
• Focus area: It focuses on 130 districts across 13 high-focus states, including Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Odisha, Assam and West Bengal.
• Features:
  • Customised Interventions: It introduces customised and evidence-based interventions tailored to the needs of individual states and districts, particularly in high-burden regions.
    • For the identified high-focus States, the Roadmap proposes a comprehensive package of interventions, including the SUMAN Package for Pregnant Women to promote early registration, complete antenatal care, quality clinical assessment and adequate post-partum institutional stay.
  • Life-Cycle Approach: It adopts a life-cycle approach to maternal and newborn care, integrating services from pre-pregnancy and antenatal care to childbirth and postnatal support.
  • High-Risk Pregnancy Management: It places special emphasis on identifying and managing high-risk pregnancies through a structured four-stage framework covering antenatal, third-trimester, intrapartum and postnatal risk management.
  • Strengthened Outreach and Support: Key interventions include bi-weekly ASHA home visits during the final months of pregnancy, strengthened referral transport systems, and financial support for designated postnatal caregivers.
    • Additionally, healthcare infrastructure has been enhanced through Birth Waiting Homes, Maternal and Child Health Wings, High Dependency Units, and Intensive Care Units in underserved areas.
  • The Roadmap proposes Centres of Excellence, a centralized SUMAN Call Centre for grievance redressal and digital monitoring through the JANANI Portal to ensure effective implementation and sustained outcomes.
  • Community participation: It also promotes community participation through initiatives such as SUMAN Panchayats, aimed at ensuring universal antenatal care, institutional deliveries, full immunisation and accountability at the local level.
    • Additional measures: It includes nutrition interventions, pre-pregnancy folic acid supplementation, AI-enabled labour rooms, enhanced maternal death reviews and climate-responsive healthcare planning.

About Operational Guidelines on National Ambulance Services (NAS), 2026

• About: The Operational Guidelines on National Ambulance Services (NAS), 2026, is a landmark framework intended to standardise emergency medical transport services across the country.
  • The guidelines establish uniform national standards for ambulance deployment, staffing, equipment, training and service quality.
• Aim: They aim to strengthen pre-hospital emergency care by ensuring timely patient stabilisation, transport and referral to appropriate healthcare facilities.
• Features:
  • A key feature of the framework is the establishment of Integrated Command and Dispatch Centres (ICDCs) equipped with GPS-based ambulance tracking, structured triage systems, real-time monitoring dashboards and advanced call management systems.
  • The NAS framework mandates compliance with AIS-125 standards for ambulance safety and quality and promotes the scientific deployment of ambulances based on factors such as population density, accident hotspots, traffic conditions, and geographical accessibility.
  • It also envisions GIS-enabled mapping of hospitals, ambulance bases, critical care facilities and high-risk zones, enabling dispatch teams to identify the most suitable healthcare facility for patients in emergencies.