Maternal, Child and Women's Health

Objective

Reduce morbidity and mortality of Neonates, Infants, Children,  Youth, Women and Mothers

Key Result Areas

• To facilitate MCWH integrated processes to develop administrative delivery systems to support high care including strategies, policies, norms and standards within national and provincial frameworks and directives

• To provide technical leadership and support to ensure effective, integrated planning and implementation of MCWH programmes
• Monitor and evaluate performance of public health facilities against determined performance indicators, develop and submit concise analytical progress report to inform decision making and planning.
• Facilitate capacity building programmes to decentralize knowledge and skills based and monitor output and outcome for training.

Target Audience

Mothers, Pregnant Women, Women of child bearing age, infants, children, youth.
 

Services Offered
 

• Saving Mothers recommendation - implementations
• Maternal Deaths Reporting, Notification & Assessments
• Management of Labour
• Neonatal care
• Perinatal Problem Identifications Programme
• Ante-natal care and post natal care
• Maternal & Perinatal mortality meetings

• The reach every district strategy
• Immunizations and cold chain management
• EPI surveillance and the management of adverse events following immunization
• The Data Self Assessment tool.

• Cervical Cancer Screening
• Termination of Pregnancy
• Management of Sexual Assault Cases
• Contraceptives Uptake

• Youth friendly services
• School health services
• The rights of the children (Rep in Premiers office - Office of the Rights of Children)

• Dual Therapy
• PCR Tests

General Information
Breastfeeding
Revised Immunisation Schedule-Change from DT to Td vaccine in the EPI immunization schedule

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