The 18-month project, jointly initiated by two NGOs -- Concerned Women for Family Development (CWFD) and ARBAN -- was inaugurated at the CWFD conference hall in the city yesterday.

Healthcare facilities, including reproductive and adolescent healthcare, will be provided to the slum people living in abject poverty in eight clinics in the city.

"Pregnant women will get special care in order to ensure safe motherhood," the meeting was told. "If any complexity arouse, then the patient would be referred to the hospitals at our own expenditure," said the sponsors.