Information
- Submitted by: icddr,b
- Topic: Health and population
- Keywords: Youth and Women; Children and Women's health; Health and Population
- Location: Bangladesh
- Date of completion:
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Action network
- This voluntary initiative came from Every Woman Every Child
Icddr,b commits to eliminate maternal mortality at its Matlab field site
Description/achievement of initiative
Icddr,b commits to eliminate maternal mortality at its Matlab field site, by reducing complications in delivery, particularly post-partum hemorrhaging, by creating comprehensive emergency obstetric facilities at Matlab, by training obstetric, nursing, and hospital staff to support complicated deliveries, and by providing training for midwives to improve the quality of home-based births.