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.
"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.
County Health executive Mohammed Dagane and Health chief officer Washington Makodingo had earlier announced that the hospital will start offering pre- and
postnatal care.
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.
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.
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.
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.
She was convicted on the grounds that failing to seek
postnatal care was murder.
They have been designed to help from induction to delivery and into
postnatal care.
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.
One of them includes restricting them from licenses to run a
postnatal care center.