Health worker provides free health checkup and consultation for mothers during a health day event organised by Save the Children in Thai Nguyen province (Photo: )Hanoi (VNA) – A Save the Children project helped improve knowledge on
for thousands of mothers and in Yen
Bai Dak Lak and Ca Mau provinces from mid 2012 to December 2016.
The project helped build three newborn units for hospitals of Yen Bai Province
including those in Tram Tau and Luc Yen districts. Following several training courses,
surgeons of the Tram Tau District hospital performed three surgeries with the
support of colleagues from the provincial hospital, although no surgery was
undertaken at the hospital over the past eight years.
rate has reduced, while many premature newborns have been
saved thanks to the facilities and human resource support from the project, according
to a health worker at Dak Lak General Hospital’s Obstetrics Unit. Project
experiences also contributed to development of the National Master Plan for
Maternal, Newborn and Child Health for 2016-2020 and the National Guidelines
for Reproductive Health services.
With
a fund of 3.5 million USD from the Atlantic Philanthropies Foundation, the
project titled “Scale up of the model of Household to hospital Continuum of
Maternal and Newborn Care” in Vietnam, was implemented by the Ministry of
Health and the Hue Medicine and Pharmacy University.
The project aims to improve access to quality maternal and newborn health
services, to increase demand for and utilisation of those services by mothers
and newborns and to strengthen the ongoing management and policy environment to
ensure sustained reductions in maternal and newborn death and disability.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
