{"id":366383,"date":"2026-06-30T15:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=366383"},"modified":"2026-06-30T15:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:33:29","slug":"suman-roadmap-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/suman-roadmap-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"SUMAN Roadmap 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Union Health and Family Welfare Minister will unveil the SUMAN Roadmap 2030 and the Operational Guidelines on National Ambulance Services (NAS), 2026\u00a0 during the 16th Conference of the Central Council of Health and Family Welfare (CCHFW).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\">About SUMAN Roadmap 2030<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 317px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/image002P34Y.jpg?resize=317%2C438&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUMAN Roadmap 2030\" width=\"317\" height=\"438\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: PIB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SUMAN Roadmap 2030 i<strong>s a comprehensive national strategy to accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)<\/strong> related to maternal and newborn health.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Objective:<\/strong> The framework seeks <strong>to reduce the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) to below 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It also aims to<strong> lower neonatal and infant mortality rates and advance the goal of zero preventable maternal and newborn deaths.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Developed by:<\/strong> It has been developed by the<strong> Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is spearheaded by the <strong>Maternal Health Division of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare under the<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rmncahn-strategy-under-national-health-mission\/\"> RMNCHA+N framework.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Focus area:<\/strong> It focuses on <strong>130 districts across 13 high-focus states,<\/strong> including Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Odisha, Assam and West Bengal.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Features:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Customised Interventions:<\/strong> It introduces<strong> customised and evidence-based interventions<\/strong> tailored<strong> to the needs of individual states and districts<\/strong>, particularly in high-burden regions.\n<ul>\n<li>For the identified high-focus States, <strong>the Roadmap proposes a comprehensive package of interventions, including the SUMAN Package<\/strong> for Pregnant Women to promote early registration, complete antenatal care, quality clinical assessment and adequate post-partum institutional stay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Life-Cycle Approach:<\/strong> It adopts a <strong>life-cycle approach to maternal and newborn care,<\/strong> integrating services from pre-pregnancy and antenatal care to childbirth and postnatal support.<\/li>\n<li><strong>High-Risk Pregnancy Management:<\/strong> It places special emphasis <strong>on identifying and managing high-risk pregnancies through a structured four-stage framework<\/strong> covering antenatal, third-trimester, intrapartum and postnatal risk management.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Strengthened Outreach and Support: Key interventions include<\/strong><strong>\u00a0bi-weekly ASHA home visits during the final months of pregnancy,<\/strong> strengthened referral transport systems, and financial support for designated postnatal caregivers.\n<ul>\n<li>Additionally,<strong> healthcare infrastructure has been enhanced through Birth Waiting Homes,<\/strong> Maternal and Child Health Wings, High Dependency Units, and Intensive Care Units in underserved areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Roadmap proposes <strong>Centres of Excellence, a centralized SUMAN Call Centre for grievance redressal and digital monitoring through the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/janani-platform\/\">JANANI Portal<\/a><\/strong> to ensure effective implementation and sustained outcomes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Community participation<\/strong>: It also promotes community participation through initiatives such as <strong>SUMAN Panchayats, aimed at ensuring universal antenatal care, institutional deliveries, full immunisation and accountability at the local level.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Additional measures: <\/strong>It includes <strong>nutrition interventions, pre-pregnancy folic acid supplementation, AI-enabled labour rooms, enhanced maternal death reviews<\/strong> and climate-responsive healthcare planning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">About Operational Guidelines on National Ambulance Services (NAS), 2026<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>About:<\/strong> The Operational Guidelines on National Ambulance Services (NAS), 2026, <strong>is a landmark framework intended to standardise emergency medical transport services<\/strong> across the country.\n<ul>\n<li>The guidelines<strong> establish uniform national standards<\/strong> for ambulance deployment, staffing, equipment, training and service quality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Aim:<\/strong> They aim <strong>to strengthen pre-hospital emergency care by ensuring timely patient stabilisation, transport<\/strong> and referral to appropriate healthcare facilities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features: <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">A key feature of the framework is<strong> the establishment of Integrated Command and Dispatch Centres (ICDCs) equipped with GPS-based ambulance tracking,<\/strong> structured triage systems, real-time monitoring dashboards and advanced call management systems.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NAS framework<strong> mandates compliance with AIS-125 standards for ambulance safety and quality<\/strong><strong>\u00a0and promotes the scientific deployment of ambulances<\/strong> based on factors such as population density, accident hotspots, traffic conditions,\u00a0and geographical accessibility.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It also <strong>envisions GIS-enabled mapping of hospitals, ambulance bases, critical care facilities and high-risk zones<\/strong>, enabling dispatch teams to identify the most suitable healthcare facility for patients in emergencies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Union Health and Family Welfare Minister will unveil the SUMAN Roadmap 2030 and the Operational Guidelines on National Ambulance Services (NAS), 2026\u00a0 during the 16th Conference of the Central Council of Health and Family Welfare (CCHFW). About SUMAN Roadmap 2030 The SUMAN Roadmap 2030 is a comprehensive national strategy to accelerate progress toward the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/suman-roadmap-2030\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SUMAN Roadmap 2030<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,12039],"tags":[11872,11853],"class_list":["post-366383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-dd-news","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}