Twenty Community Health Workers (CHWs) of Region Nine are embarking on training to deliver improved maternal and child health care in the region.
The Department of Public Information (DPI) yesterday said that the training has been made possible through an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) loan which was granted to the Government of Guyana in February 2017. The US$8M loan will be employed to improve the level of reproductive healthcare delivery in Guyana.
Over the next five years the reproductive, neonatal and maternal health services in Regions Three, Four and Nine will be bolstered, DPI said.
The Director of the Maternal and Child Health Programme of the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Ertenesia Hamilton said, “In looking at the situation which exists in Guyana it was recognised that all of our maternal deaths that we had over the last ten years could be grouped under three main headings.” These she described as the three ‘delay’ models – delay in seeking care, delay in reaching care and the delay in receiving care.
