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Health Ministry Calls for Non-clinical, Pre-conception Assessments for Mothers

by Muhamadi Byemboijana
April 1, 2023
Health Ministry Calls for Non-clinical, Pre-conception Assessments for Mothers
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KAMPALA — The Ministry of Health has urged private health facilities to consider wellness facilities for the non-medical needs of mothers and babies that can improve maternal health outcomes.

Dr Richard Mugahi, the Assistant Commissioner in Charge of Reproductive and Child Health at the Ministry of Health, says due to the big numbers in government facilities, they have had to forego some aspects of maternal care which can be provided by private providers to those that are able to pay for them.

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Mugahi says expectant mothers need to be prepared by experts right from when they are planning to get pregnant if they are getting the best experience out of delivery.

Ha noted that often, mothers have concerns such as how they can safely exercise during pregnancy or even enjoy wellness therapies such as steam baths and saunas.

“We are focusing on holistic women care not only pregnancy, by the time most women get pregnant, but they’re also not prepared to lead to complications,” he says.

“If you’re going to get pregnant, we prepare you in the coming six months, we must tell you what to eat so that the body is prepared to receive the pregnancy.”

He was speaking at the launch of a special centre for mothers and babies at the International Hospital Kampala (IHK) last week.

The Commissioner says that the Ministry is now moving into offering holistic women’s care having established through research that the majority of the women in Uganda are getting pregnant when they are unaware and as a result, some turn up for antenatal care or even delivery when they are anaemic affecting their own health and that of the babies they are carrying.

Mugahi says the ministry is supporting private facilities with standards of how to do this but also ensuring that the facilities maintain good practices and have recommended equipment for such maternal and child care to be provided.

Meanwhile, the just-launched facility at IHK comprises a thirty-two-bed capacity women’s centre with general and private wards in addition to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

According to Dr Moses Tiri, the Obstetrics and Gynecology Unit Team lead, they will be offering both level one and two neonatal care, a service they expect will lower pressure on the few NICUs in Kampala.

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