150 health providers including 84 women completed training on Saturday, November 2 on obstetric and neonatal care techniques in the health zone of Niania and PK 51, in the territory of Mambasa (Ituri). According to the head doctor of the zone, the aim of this training is to reduce maternal mortality in this zone which has already seen around ten deaths since the start of this year.
According to Doctor Joseph Pemanakuwe, this training also enabled learners to be in possession of techniques for detecting high-risk pregnancies in order to transfer them to reference health structures.
“They were trained in emergency obstetric and neonatal techniques, and we were able to emphasize the causes of maternal deaths. Among these causes, we could see the factors favoring these deaths such as hemorrhages after birth. The goal was to reverse the trend. Because currently we did not want to accept that a woman could die while giving birth, we also did not want a child to die in the 28 days preceding its birth. We needed to see techniques to avoid all these deaths. » explained Doctor Pemanakuwe
After this training, he said he expected providers to master the material, its application and above all the correct use of the partogram (editor’s note document which records on a graph the evolution of labor, childbirth and maternal monitoring data and fetal that relate to it)
“When the woman is in labor, there is a tool that tells us whether the woman can give birth normally or not. And also detect high-risk pregnancies and refer them to reference structures,” he concluded.
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