The Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) is an initiative by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare aimed at improving healthcare access and immunization services for pregnant women and children up to 5 years old through a web-based tracking system. It facilitates service delivery, encourages two-way communication between providers and beneficiaries, and captures extensive health data to ensure maternal and child health. The system also includes a call center to gather feedback, create health awareness, and support data validation for better health service delivery.

1. Mother and Child
Tracking System
(MCTS)
SHARON TREESA ANTONY
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
GOVT.COLLEGE OF NURSING
ALAPPUZHA

2. Mother and Child Tracking System
(MCTS)
• An initiative of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to leverage
information technology for ensuring delivery of full spectrum
of healthcare and immunization services to pregnant women
and children up to 5 years of age.
• An innovative web based, name based, tracking system
• It facilitates and monitors service delivery and also establishes
a two way communication between the service providers and
beneficiaries.

3. MCTS Objective
• to ensure that all pregnant women receive their Ante-Natal
Care Check-ups (ANCs) and post-natal care (PNCs); and further
children receive their full immunisation.

4. Objectives of MCTS

5. Mother and Child Tracking and
Facilitation Centre (MCTFC)
• The MCTFC is a call centre and is designed :
• to get feedback of beneficiaries on various mother and child
care services and programmes to evaluate the programme
interventions
• to create awareness among them about health services and
promoting right health practices and behavior
• to provide a supporting framework to MCTS and help in
validating the date entered in MCTS by making phone calls to
pregnant women and parents of children as also the health
workers

6. PROCESS

7. Data captured
PREGNANT WOMEN
• Location Details (State, District, Block, Address)
• Identification details (Name, DOB, Phone No, JSY, caste, UID)
• Health Provider details ( ANM, ASHA, Linked facility for
delivery)
• ANC details (LMP, ANC dates, TT, IFA, Anemia, Complications)
• Pregnancy Outcome (Place, delivery date, JSY benefits)
PNC Details - dates Infant details

8. CONT..
CHILDREN
• Location Details (State, District, Block, Address)
• Identification details (Name, DOB, Phone No, caste)
• Health Provider details (ANM, ASHA)
• Immunization details (Dates for BCG, OPV, DPT / Pentavalent,
Hepatitis, Measles, Vit A)

9. DATA CAPTURED

10. MCTS…
• ANMs cater to a population of 3000-5000 and they are
responsible for providing primary healthcare services under
nutrition, immunization, family planning and maternal and
child health programmes.
• An important part of an ANM’s work is collecting health-
related data. They capture around 200 key indicators on
different health parameters. Currently, this information is
recorded in physical registers and then uploaded online
through data-entry, which is a cumbersome process with
duplicity of work.

11. Salient Features
• Efficient digital data-entry to reduce paper-work
The application has encoded antenatal, postnatal, infancy and childhood
forms for hassle-free one-time entry of data that can be directly
uploaded online.
• Identification and referral of high-risk cases with SMS-alert system
The intuitive application gives real-time situational alerts on high-risk
factors present and referrals to be done along with correct treatment
methodology. SMS-alerts are sent to the concerned health functionaries
and family to ensure follow-ups to complete the loop of care.
• Access to training videos
21 refresher video-guides are uploaded in the application. Created in the
local language, they provide a step-by-step guidance on conducting a
variety of examinations and tests during pregnancy and childhood.

12. Benefits of MCTS
Beneficiaries
• Information about desired services, Government Schemes
• Advance information about the due services
• Facilitate in timely delivery of services and better interaction
with Health Provider
• Free consultation from Central(Toll Free No.)

13. CONT…
ANM / ASHA (Community Health Workers)
• Auto generation of work-plan
• SMS based workplan
• Micro planning for Filed Visit
• Readily available Services due list
• Better guidance from senior supervisors
• Contact details of the Beneficiaries

14. Thank you..