Women health services: Equipment provided for establishment of 14 health houses in Mansehra

MANSEHRA: The Maternal, Newborn and Child Health programme on Friday provided medical equipment for the establishment of 14 health houses to ensure quality healthcare and obstetrics services to expectant women and newborns in remote parts of the district.

“We want to bring down mother and infant mortality rate in rural parts of the district and this is why 14 graduate midwives are provided with equipment to establish Health Houses in their respective villages,” District Health Officer Dr Shah Faisal Khanzada told a ceremony held at the Community Midwifery School in King Abdullah Teaching Hospital here.

The divisional social organiser MNCH programme in Hazara, Hameed Torabi, district head Sayyar Khan and assistant at Midwifery School Magfoor Noshad also attended the event.

Dr Faisal said that it was an initiative undertaken by the MNCH programme to provide safe delivery and healthcare services to pregnant mothers and newborns through skilled birth attendants.

“These trained midwives would provide pre-and post-healthcare and obstetrics services to women at their thresholds in rural parts of the district,” he added.