Project 7 on people’s health care, improving the health and stature of ethnic minorities, and preventing child malnutrition includes: Integrated nutritional care for the first 1,000 days of life for mothers and children in pre-, intra- and post-natal care to improve the stature and physical strength of ethnic minorities; health care, reducing maternal and child mortality; propaganda, advocacy and communication to change behavior on health care and nutrition for mothers and children; Allowance support for village midwives…

Doctor Le Thi Hong Van – Director of Yen Bai Department of Health said that in difficult economic conditions, the implementation of Project 7 is one of the very practical and meaningful policies. Currently, Yen Bai is a bright spot in implementing the goals of maternal and child health care. Typically, the most prominent is that ethnic minority women are increasingly coming for prenatal check-ups at public health facilities.

Implementing project 7, children in the highlands and ethnic minorities in Yen Bai are well cared for, improving their physical condition, stature, and preventing malnutrition.

Also according to Ms. Van, to effectively implement Project 7, the health sector determines that preventive medicine is the key, grassroots health is the foundation. At the same time, the team of civil servants and public employees working on population work from the province to the grassroots along with the team of village population collaborators were consolidated and quickly put into stable operation. These are also the extended arms of the industry that transmit information and policies as well as mobilize people to implement population policies.

To date, implementing project 7, Yen Bai province has organized 15 advanced training classes for nearly 300 people from the commune population work steering committee, village health workers, and population collaborators. This is one of the activities to improve the capacity of officials, aiming to complete grassroots tasks.

Yen Bai health sector also reviewed and compiled registration needs for training specialist doctors I from localities; Support allowances and deliver babies at home for 40 village midwives from August 2022 to June 2023.

Along with that, the sector organized 54 training classes to provide knowledge and communication skills, implementation guidance on nutritional care in the first 1,000 days of life and acute malnutrition management for 1,229 health workers. district, commune and village health teams; Provide 3,712 maternal and child health monitoring books for the grassroots level; Provide 1,600 clean birth packages to the grassroots level, prioritizing communes with home births.

Synchronize solutions to improve the quality of health care for ethnic minorities

The industry has also supported medical staff at 98 out-of-station injection sites in Mu Cang Chai, Tram Tau, Van Chan, Tran Yen, Luc Yen, Yen Binh districts from January to the end of June 2023; Organized 12 training classes on health care and nutrition for mothers and children for 316 village health workers. The training content focuses on raising awareness and changing people’s behavior about maternal, newborn and child health care in disadvantaged areas.

The health sector also maintains prenatal screening activities (fetal ultrasound) for 249 mothers, estimated at 12%; Heel blood sampling for 161 newborns, estimated at 8% of the total number of newborns; Organized periodic health examinations for over 6,597 elderly people in 63 integrated communication campaigns providing periodic health examination services for the elderly in communes implementing the project…

According to doctor Ha Thi Mong Hoai – Deputy Branch of the Department of Population and Family Planning of Yen Bai province, with knowledge and skills trained and practiced at hospitals, training classes, medical staff District, commune and village health teams, especially village midwives, can take care of mothers during pregnancy and childbirth, deliver babies safely, and detect complications in mothers and newborns. , perform basic life-saving skills and make timely referrals.

“We truly acknowledge the great contributions of the medical team and the village midwives, who worked day and night regardless of sun and rain, “carrying war cones”, going to every alley, meeting every house, propagating Advocate, advise, intervene, support and help ethnic minority women during pregnancy, childbirth and child care. The efforts of the village midwives team have helped pregnant women access and use medical services, limit unnecessary complications, and significantly reduce maternal and child mortality rates,” Dr. Hoai emphasized. strong.

Implementing project 7 in the National Target Program for socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the period 2021 – 2030, Yen Bai province has many solutions to develop the grassroots health network. in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.

For example, strengthen the training of village health workers and village birth attendants for areas with difficult and especially difficult socio-economic conditions. Require district health facilities, commune health facilities, and village health facilities to actively participate in communication activities to raise awareness and change people’s behavior to protect and improve health. Preventive medicine and primary health care.

Focus on training doctors for commune health. Develop and promulgate prices and health insurance payment mechanisms for home examinations and births, and provide clean birth packages in some special cases in mountainous, remote and mountainous areas; Organize mobile medical examination and treatment sessions at commune health stations, district health centers, and district hospitals in villages and hamlets periodically…

These solutions of Yen Bai show that the issue of maternity health care for ethnic minority women is always given greater attention and promotion, because the rate of pregnant women having full antenatal care is directly related to Next comes the mortality rate of children under 1 year old and obstetric complications of pregnant mothers, or in other words, related to the right to life of mothers and children – one of the basic human rights.

In the coming time, the Yen Bai health sector and authorities at all levels, relevant departments, branches and organizations will continue to implement many programs and offer many intervention solutions on health care in general and public health. maternal health and ethnic minority children in particular, to continue to create positive changes and reduce disparities in child malnutrition rates between localities and different ethnic groups…