MT Krishna Babu, Principal Secretary (Health) stated that according to a survey 40 percent of the medical staff are not aware of how to provide immediate first aid and stabilization care in emergencies. Â . He was the chief guest of a 3 days zonal wise training provided to nominated health personnels by Noora health and NHM Andhra Pradesh Care campaign programme – Training to trainers. Staff nurses and counselors from 259 health facilities have been nominated for training to trainees sessions.
On the occasion, he addressed on Maternal and child health indicators where MMR is 97 in India and 45 in AP and IMR is 35 in India and 30 in AP. He said that all the maternal health indicators should be decreased, and we should work on achieving SDG Goals. In order to achieve these goals there should be a healthy population, which can be achieved through improving the health of mothers and newborn. He emphasized the importance of family in care giving. So when the family is educated then it will be easy to achieve the MCH goals. He further highlighted the importance of the care companion programme concept where training will be given to the Staff nurses and counselors from different healthcare facilities including TH, AH, DH, CHC’s so that it reaches to the community level.
J Nivas, Mission director NHM stated the importance of family care giver in improving the health of patients and when the government is looking to implement this concept, Noora health team came up with the idea of Care Companion Program (CCP). He stated that CCP is the first programme in the country which gives training to the community in large scale in a structured manner with its focus on different components of Maternal and Child care like Nutrition, Breast feeding, Community engagement, Communication aspects and awareness on high risk pregnancy.
Dr Seema Murthy, Director (Noora health), Dr Seema Kumar, Health specialist (UNICEF) and others were present.
