Saving Lives at Birth in Kawempe amidst COVID-19
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| Organization | Child and Family foundation uganda |
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| Region | Uganda |
| Website | Website |
| ProjectLeader | Babikako Harriet |
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This project plans to provide access to free transport means of 500 pregnant mothers and sick newborns to health facilities in Kawempe. Pregnant mothers and adolescent girls die due to a lack of ambulance services when they need critical care in health facilities. In the COVID 19 era, the situation has worsened since ambulance services are rationed making them very inaccessible to pregnant mothers and girls who need transfer to a critical care unit hence the unnecessary maternal death.
Challenge
High maternal mortality rates of 336 deaths per 100,000 live births persist in Uganda due to an overall limited capacity of health facilities to manage complications among pregnant women. Similarly, Neonatal mortality rate in urban underserved areas like Kawempe is 26 death per 1000 live births due to poor transportation means of mothers and sick newborns who are critically ill and need an intensive care unit, or emergency cesarean section. This project seeks to affect 203,800 women and children
Long-Term Impact
This project will increase access to emergency care and transport to about 500 mothers and sick children to referral health units which will reduce the number of deaths that result from the delayed transfer for critical care. It will further reduce the complications that result when mothers and children are transported without access to emergency care during the transfer process, hence better health outcomes and well-being.
References
Additional Documentation
https://www.globalgiving.org//pfil/53903/projdoc.doc
Project Gallery
Twins delivered at CFU medical center
A child who was helped to breathe at birth
