A Save the Children project helped improve knowledge on maternal and newborn care for thousands of mothers and health workers in Yen Bai Dak Lak and Ca Mau provinces from mid 2012 to December 2016.
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: Save the Children)
Hanoi (VNA) - A Save the Children project helped improve knowledge onmaternal and newborn care for thousands of mothers and health workers in YenBai Dak Lak and Ca Mau provinces from mid 2012 to December 2016.
The project helped build three newborn units for hospitals of Yen Bai Provinceincluding those in Tram Tau and Luc Yen districts. Following several training courses,surgeons of the Tram Tau District hospital performed three surgeries with thesupport of colleagues from the provincial hospital, although no surgery wasundertaken at the hospital over the past eight years.
Maternal fatality rate has reduced, while many premature newborns have beensaved thanks to the facilities and human resource support from the project, accordingto a health worker at Dak Lak General Hospital’s Obstetrics Unit. Projectexperiences also contributed to development of the National Master Plan forMaternal, Newborn and Child Health for 2016-2020 and the National Guidelinesfor Reproductive Health services.
Witha fund of 3.5 million USD from the Atlantic Philanthropies Foundation, theproject titled “Scale up of the model of Household to hospital Continuum ofMaternal and Newborn Care" in Vietnam, was implemented by the Ministry ofHealth and the Hue Medicine and Pharmacy University.
The project aims to improve access to quality maternal and newborn healthservices, to increase demand for and utilisation of those services by mothersand newborns and to strengthen the ongoing management and policy environment toensure sustained reductions in maternal and newborn death and disability.-VNA
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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: Save the Children) 
