LARKANA:As many as 20 community midwives participated in a five-day training workshop organized by Poverty Eradication Initiative (PEI) and PPHI for introduction of mobile application named “Umeed” at a Public Health School (PHS) Larkana.
MNCH specialist Musarat Rani, Regional Manager Umair Ali Soomro, Principal, PHS Dr Syed Azim Shah and focal person MNCH Dr Shoukat Abro distributed cellular phones, bags and certificates among the successful trainees. The trainers said that timely referring of pregnant women through the Umeed application will save many lives.
They said that PEI had launched training program in Sindh with the cooperation of PPHI to train community midwifes so that they may be able to face challenges during pregnancy and after birth of a child. They said that these midwives will refer such complicated cases in their respective areas to suitable hospitals in cities or towns so that lives of mothers and newborns could be saved.
They said one of the major cause of death of pregnant mothers and newborns is not referring them timely to major hospitals. They said United Nations and its other organizations such WHO, UNICEF, and other international agencies were of the view that health of mothers and other women will never improve until and unless they are provided services of trained midwives. They said that midwives were working around the globe perfectly but unfortunately ratio of mothers’ and newborn deaths was not satisfactory in Pakistan which was why midwives were being trained throughout Sindh to save precious lives for which.