The national policy of free preconception prenatal health screening 2025 reads:
What is the national free pre-pregnancy health checkup?
An eugenic health check-up is a series of eugenic health check-ups for couples planning to prepare for pregnancy. These include, inter alia, eugenic health education, medical inquiry, medical examination, clinical laboratory examinations (hepatitis b series syphilis, thyroid function testing, liver kidneys, eugenics, etc.), gynaecology ultrasound, risk assessment, counselling, early pregnancy and post-pregnancy follow-up services to reduce the risk of birth defects and improve the quality of the birth population。
2. Why attend free pre-pregnancy eugenic health examinations?
Through pre-conception tests, both spouses are able to understand their state of health, identify risk factors such as genetic, environmental, psychological and behavioural factors that may affect their fertility, receive targeted eugenic counselling, take appropriate preventive measures, prepare for pregnancy in the best physical, psychological, nutritional and behavioural conditions and at the most appropriate time, and reduce birth defects. You can have a healthy baby。
3. When is the best pre-pregnancy checkup?
Both spouses are advised to undergo pre-pregnancy health check-ups three to six months before they prepare for pregnancy. The state of health of the pre-conception body is closely related to birth defects, and pre-conception tests are highly relevant in terms of reducing birth defects. In the case of family planning, it is important to reduce the occurrence of birth defects when both spouses are aware of the state of their health and receive pre-conception health check-ups and counselling, especially at the right time to make genetic counselling choices, and to make greater use of the quality of the birth population。
4. What is the process of health check-ups before free pregnancy?
Pregnant couples are scheduled to attend the maternity and child health clinic in phoenix to provide quality health education, to raise awareness of risk prevention and to undergo pre-pregnancy health check-ups, to sign an informed consent document, which collects basic information from both spouses for laboratory and video check-ups, to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the health of pregnant couples, to assess risk factors on the basis of the results of both examinations, and to provide pre-pregnancy counselling and health guidance to clients with risk factors。
5. What are the preparations for free pre-pregnancy health check-ups?
The results of the examination will be more accurate if the husband and the wife are examined together, with their identity cards, if they are empty in the morning and if the woman is required to fill her bladder; the day before the examination, it is better not to drink, to eat, and to avoid menstruation。
6. All costs of eugenic health screening are free of charge?
Yes, as long as it is in line with family planning policy, all fees are free of charge and a pre-pregnancy examination is free of charge (one per year)
7. When and where is free preconception screening available?
Free pre-pregnancy health check-ups are available from monday to saturday at the maternity and child health clinic in phoenix (except on holidays)
8. What are the hazards of birth defects?
Birth defects directly harm sick children and families, and every young couple wants a healthy and smart child. When a child is born with a birth defect, it is a huge blow to pregnant mothers and families, not only causing material damage and financial burdens, but often it is difficult to recover from trauma in the short term。
How can birth defects be interfered with?
The first line of defence against birth defects is pre-marital medical examination and pre-pregnancy medical examination, avoiding close marriage and childbirth at an advanced age: genetic counselling before pregnancy and supplementary folic acid between three months before and three months after pregnancy are effective in preventing neuronal malformations; iodization of salt prevents endemic ctinism; vaccination against rubella in the first three months of pregnancy: timely detection and treatment of diseases such as diabetes。
The second line of defence refers to the prevention of birth defects using methods such as prenatal screening, prenatal diagnosis and maternal health care; prenatal screening and screening of abnormal chromosomes; pre-natal screening for the serochemical examination of the fetal protein; and neurophate malformation screening. The last line of defence against birth defects refers to the early detection and treatment of birth defects, which are currently available in the form of neonatal disease screening and systematic child health care. Specifically: screening for congenital metabolic diseases in newborns (c) hearing screening of newborns; early detection of abnormalities through standard medical examinations, such as dislocated hips, poaching of horses, pre-cardiatric diseases, cracking of the lips, etc., and seeking timely surgical treatment。
Service tips
(1) the husband and the wife must avoid the physiology period when coming to the hospital for examination
(2) both husband and wife carry an identity card and are subject to a pre-conception check。
(3) the cost of inspection is entirely free。
(4) the state policy provides that maternity leave shall be increased by 10 days on the basis of a certificate of pregnancy test, if the female employee takes part in a pre-pregnancy health check。
