(QBĐT) - This morning, August 19, in Dong Hoi City, the Quang Binh Center for Disease Control in coordination with the Department of Maternal and Child Health ( Ministry of Health ) organized the opening ceremony of a training course to update knowledge for village midwives in 2024.
The training course was attended by 30 village midwives working in mountainous communes in 3 districts: Minh Hoa, Bo Trach and Le Thuy.
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During the 5-day course (from August 19-23, 2024), trainees participating in the training course were updated with basic knowledge, such as: Recording books and making monthly activity reports of village midwives; transporting mothers and newborns to safe medical facilities; managing pregnancy and caring for mothers during pregnancy; handling abnormal signs during pregnancy; detecting labor and handling during labor; providing essential care for mothers and newborns during and immediately after birth using clean delivery packages; handling babies who do not breathe immediately after birth; initial handling of bleeding during and immediately after birth; caring for mothers and newborns at home on the first day after birth...
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In particular, at the training course, trainees will be directly instructed by provincial lecturers from the provincial CDC, Quang Binh Medical College and the Department of Maternal and Child Health on how to handle emergency situations related to pregnant mothers and newborns at home when medical staff have not yet arrived.
Deputy Director of the provincial CDC Nguyen Anh Dong said: Village midwives are ethnic minorities, trained in the field of reproductive health, to be able to provide safe motherhood services for pregnant women and newborns in remote areas, ethnic minority areas with many difficulties. In recent years, village midwives in the province have promoted their role well, contributing significantly to the work of taking care of the health of mothers and newborns; reducing the number of deaths for mothers and children during pregnancy and childbirth in the mountainous areas where they live.
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The training course will continue to update and supplement knowledge and skills on health care for pregnant women and newborns for the team of midwives working in the village, helping them to do better in reproductive health care in the locality.
This is the first training course under the Phase II action plan of the project to support the health sector in maintaining, consolidating and developing the network of ethnic minority village midwives in extremely difficult areas sponsored by the Thien Tam Fund of Vingroup Group, held in Quang Binh in 2024.
Some pictures at the opening ceremony of the training course:
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Source: https://www.baoquangbinh.vn/suc-khoe/202408/cap-nhat-kien-thuc-cho-co-do-thon-ban-nam-2024-2220380/
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