what is anm

ANM stands for Auxiliary Nurse Midwife, which is a healthcare profession that focuses on providing basic healthcare services to communities, particularly in rural areas of India. ANMs are regarded as the grass-roots workers in the health organization pyramid and are the first contact person between the community and the health services. ANMs work at health sub-centers, which are small village-level institutions that provide primary health care to the community. ANMs are expected to be multi-purpose health workers and their work includes maternal and child health along with family planning services, health and nutrition education, efforts for maintaining environmental sanitation, immunization for the control of communicable diseases, treatment of minor illnesses, and more. ANM is also a two-year diploma program in the field of nursing that focuses mostly on the health care sector.