RANGPUR, Feb 8 (BSS): The Rural Medical Practitioners (RMPs) at an orientation course today expressed their commitment for reducing maternal and neonatal deaths through ensuring nutrition of the pregnant women, mothers and babies.
Fulbari Area Development Programme (ADP) of World Vision Bangladesh (WVB) organised the orientation on "Integrated Management of Childhood Illness" at its Madila Sub-centre under Betdighee union in Fulbari upazila of Dinajpur district.
A total of 20 trained RMPs of the area participated in the course arranged for making the healthcare services for 0-59 month-old babies and pregnant women more available and ensuring their nutrition in rural areas.
Medical Officer of Fulbari Upazila Health Complex Dr Mohammad Shahed Murshed attended the orientation course as the chief guest with Programme Officer of WVB Fulbari ADP Badal Sangma in the chair.
Health Programme Organiser of WVB Fulabri ADP Kanon Baroi and its Health & Nutrition Supervisor Bulbul Ahmed addressed the course as special guests.
In their speeches, the speakers said RMPs could play vital role in reaching primary health services to the pregnant women, babies, children and lactating mothers in the remote rural areas to reduce maternal, neonatal and child deaths.
They asked the RMPs for contributing in properly implementing the government's five-year term programme to reduce maternal and neonatal deaths to the minimum by 2016 through ensuring maternal, neonatal and nutritional health services.
They also discussed about the sources of nutrition, importance of optimum nutrition, dangers during pregnancy, reasons behind maternal and neonatal deaths, harms of child marriage, importance of first milk for newborn babies and other related issues.
The speakers stressed on ensuring maternal nutrition during pregnancy, safe delivery and motherhood, health and methods of providing primary medicare and health services for the pregnant women, lactating mothers, babies and children.
The chief guest asked the participants to assist rural people for proper selection and consumption of nutritious foods like vegetables to prevent deficiency of protein, vitamin-A, iodine, iron and minerals of pregnant women and babies.
