postnatal care

postnatal care

Care of the mother for the period of about 6 weeks after delivery of a baby.
Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005
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Ahmed disclosed that women in Mashegu and Kontagora local government areas were in the habit of shunning antenatal and postnatal care, largely because of farm work.
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"It will also provide - preventive services such as antenatal and postnatal care of pregnant women, assessment of nutritional status, counselling, preventive and promotive component of national/state health programmes," he added.
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County Health executive Mohammed Dagane and Health chief officer Washington Makodingo had earlier announced that the hospital will start offering pre- and postnatal care.
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Data show that the programs have reduced infant mortality; given health care to low-income families; provided comprehensive prenatal and postnatal care to women; and provided access to preventive health care services, such as for oral health.
Support for mothers, children important
The five babies admitted for specialised care at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) are in stable condition and have received overwhelming support from well-wishers, including government officials.MTRH Chief Executive Officer Wilson Aruasa said the quintuplets and their mother, Evaline Namukhula, 28, were responding well to postnatal care.
Quintuplets are stable, elders say they are not bad omen
The use of a postnatal care pathway has been shown to be the best way of providing individualised care for mothers and babies, according to international guidelines by the World Health Organisation and the UK-based NICE programme (National Institute of Clinical Excellence)," said Sister Salim.
1,200 mothers benefit from postnatal home care
The use of a postnatal care pathway has been shown to be the best way of providing individualised care for mothers and babies, according to international guidelines by the World Health Organization and the UK-based NICE program (National Institute of Clinical Excellence)," said Salim.
Over 1,200 new mothers benefit from HMC's postnatal home care service
She was convicted on the grounds that failing to seek postnatal care was murder.
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They have been designed to help from induction to delivery and into postnatal care.
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Rellon has also ordered the City Health Office to let barangay health workers spread out into their areas and ask women residents to avail themselves of the pre- and postnatal care services in the city's health centers and to use the birthing facilities.
Davao officials urge women to tap services of state-run birthing facilities
One of them includes restricting them from licenses to run a postnatal care center.
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