Sunday, June 30, 2013

Better healthcare and community mobilisation saves mothers and newborns

By Ochieng’ Ogodo

Journalist-Kenya

[NAIROBI] A combination of better healthcare and community mobilisation can improve the quality of care for mothers and newborns and also reduce newborn mortality, says a new study
The five-year programme conducted in Malawi to improve the quality of care for mothers and newborns found that it reduced newborn mortality by 30 percent and saved at least 1,000 newborn lives in rural area.
Carried out in three rural districts in Malawi with a combined population of more than two million, the study was designed to test whether a combined effort to increase both community awareness and strategies for perinatal care and to improve the quality of healthcare would be more effective than either one