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

Essential Package of Care : Paediatrics

Essential Package of Care: Child Health

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
What you need to know about vaccinations

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