Hanoi: pre-natal care lowers maternal mortality rate
The Reproductive Health Care Centre of Hanoi reported that 99.9 percent of pregnant women have received pre-natal care, thus reducing the city’s maternity mortality rate to below the national level.
Hanoi (VNA) – The Reproductive Health Care Centre of Hanoireported that 99.9 percent of pregnant women have received pre-natal care, thusreducing the city’s maternity mortality rate to below the national level.
Accordingto the centre’s Director Nguyen Xuan Anh, 98 percent of new mothers and their newbornbabies also receive post-delivery care.
Thedirector reported that all hospitals and clinics across the city offerreproductive health care services, such as pregnancy examination, gynaecologycheck-ups and treatment and birth control methods.
Allcommune-level health care stations provide health and nutrition consultationalong with treatment of common diseases among children. Many also offer childbirth delivery, gynaecology check-ups and test samples taking for earlydetection of reproductive infections and cancer.
District-levelhealth care centres, the Hanoi Oncology Hospital, and the municipal chapter ofthe Vietnam Women’s Union jointly implemented a programme on cervicalcancer screening among local women.
Thecentre also provides reproductive health care services for adolescents and men whileconducting communication work across local schools to enhance the awareness ofproductive health care among students.
Anotherkey task of the centre is to monitor the development of children under five withthe goal of reducing malnutrition, stunted growth and obesity. As a result, 98.1percent children under two have their weight measured every quarter; 98.2percent of malnourished children under five receive monthly checks, and 98percent of children under five are given the check every year.
Therate of stunted growth among children under five in Hanoi is now 14.2 percent,and the rate of underweight children is 9 percent.
NguyenXuan Anh said the city is facing numerous challenges in reproductive healthcare for men, industrial zone workers and adolescents; as well as in tacklingboth malnutrition and growing obesity among children.
Inorder to address the situation, the centre will coordinate closer with relevantagencies and localities to expand further reproductive health care and improve populationquality.
Thecity aims to bring down the rate of child malnutrition in terms ofweight-for-age and height-for-age to 14 percent and 8.8 percent, respectively,and the rate of child obesity to below 10 percent. -VNA
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