Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam)
Anne Robi
26 January 2012
THE Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has stepped up long-term strategies to reduce maternal and infant deaths in the country.
The exercise to be conducted by experts from the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) has been funded by the American Agency for International Development (USAID).
Speaking to reporters in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday, MUHAS Deputy Vice Chancellor, Prof Eligious Lyamuya said that the plan also aims at achieving the millennium development goals on reproductive health.
"Apart from implementing government's efforts in the fight against maternal and infant deaths, the plan also aims at achieving Millennium Development Goals," he stressed.
Prof Lyamuya who was speaking during a workshop on Dissemination of Findings from the Morogoro Evaluation Project on Health Productive, said that the plan will focus on complications to mothers and children after delivery. Echoing Prof Lyamuya, the Coordinator of the Evaluation Project, Mr Chrisostom Lipinga said that maternal and infant mortality is alarmingly increasing due to lack of awareness.
Basing on the findings, Mr Lipinga said that 75 per cent of maternal deaths occur within one-month after delivery. "Most mothers die within a month after delivery following unnecessary complications that occur after delivery, this is due to lack of awareness in communities," he noted.
On the other hand, Mr Lipinga said that 60 per of infant deaths occur within a month after delivery. He attributed the trend to ignorance. "Some of the mothers do not go for medical check up whenever a complication occurs, this is where most mothers and children die," he said, adding that HIV positive mothers do not go for medical check-up after delivery and thus increasing the problem. He noted that the project would be implemented throughout the country.
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