Newborn Deaths Cut
Community women's groups vital: Experts
Mobilising women's groups in rural communities to address problems in pregnancy, delivery and postnatal period can substantially reduce newborn and postnatal deaths, said health experts yesterday.
They told a seminar titled "Improving Maternal and Child Health in Bangladesh: A Perinatal Care Project Experience."
Perinatal Care Project (PCP), a project of Bangladesh Diabetic Samity, organised the seminar at a hotel in the capital where State Minister for Health and Family Welfare Captain (retd) Dr Mozibur Rahman Fakir was present as chief guest.
The project, which has been working since 2004 in the districts of Bogra, Faridpur, and Moulvibazar, found that community women's groups can play a major role in identifying and addressing problems facing mothers and newborns and thus bringing down respective mortality rates.
Lawmaker Prof Dr MS Akbar, chairman of Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, also spoke at the seminar.
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