Rajasthan government will launch a Janani Shishu Suraksha Yojana today to bring down maternal and child mortality rate in the state. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot will launch the scheme at Dudu near Jaipur. Over 5300 women die every year in Rajasthan due to complications in delivery, while 98 thousand 500 infants die with in a year of their birth in the state. In these circumstances the Rajasthan Janani Shishu Suraksha Yojana is a historic step to protect the valuable life of mother and child. Under the scheme all pregnant women and sick infant would be provided free treatment in govt hospitals. Along with this, all the pregnant women would be provided medicines and other consumables before, during and till 6 months after the delivery. Likewise the sick infants would be provided all medicines free up to 30 days of their birth. The pregnant and infants would also be provided free transport facility from home to health institute and back. For this purpose government ambulance would be made available free of cost in district hospitals, and community health centers. One lakh 18 thousand private ambulance, taxies and other vehicles have also been listed in the concerned areas of all the districts to provide transport facility from remote villages to the hospitals.