jaipur pregnant women of karauli district which is one of the five aspirational districts of the state are fighting a battle against anaemia one of 112 countrys most underdeveloped districts low haemoglobin level is so prevalent that the district collector had to initiate a campaign to help them overcome it for safe motherhood and infants health karauli district collector ankit kumar singh launched an initiative to help boost haemoglobin levels for healthy mother and infant first he conducted a survey with the help of the health department which revealed that 85 of pregnant women have anaemia which means they have low levels of haemoglobin the survey was conducted on 13153 women and out of those 11202 had less than 11 grams per decilitre gdl since anaemia is a risk factor for maternal and infant health he named the campaign aanchal abhiyan and conducted it from may 11 to may 16 for screening pregnant women now a follow up campaign will be launched soon to check if the level of haemoglobin has increased after providing them treatment since pregnant women are provided with assured comprehensive and free antenatal care on the 9th of every month at community health centres chc and primary health centres phcs under the pradhan mantri surakshit matritva abhiyan pmsma the karauli district administration included subcentres too for making it easy for pregnant women to reach the nearest hub for screening we realized that there is a need to check haemoglobin levels of pregnant women upto subcentre level as not all the pregnant woman were able to reach chcs and phcs under the campaign of five days screening was done at 332 centres which was attended by 13153 pregnant women singh told toi