| In Myanmar, more than sixty percent of total population is women and children who are the
most vulnerable groups. Since women have been fulfilling their reproductive responsibility of propagating human race, many have died and many more face death in the process of giving birth. In cities and towns the maternal and child health care was delivered through urban health centres, maternal and child health centres and school health teams and in rural areas, the rural health centres and sub-health centres scheme was established for provision of primary health care including maternal and child health. Maternal and child health is the integral part of comprehensive health care delivery system. Birth spacing is an important strategy to improve the status of maternal and child health. Focusing on the strength of basic health staff in cooperation with the various types of voluntary health workers, local administrative authorities, NGOs and the community, the health programme has put more emphasis on improvement of quality. |
Promoting breastfeeding
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Training of Midwives
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The intra and intersectoral coordination, community participation and the important role of non-governmental voluntary organizations would also be enhanced to obtain successful achievement of the project objective. Starting from the base year of NHP (1994-95), the implementation of antenatal, maternal and child health and birth spacing programmes have been transformed into reproductive health programme including adolescent health in order to provide health care to all life cycle stages.
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