Training for healthcare workers concludes in Longleng

DIMAPUR — A three-day district-level training on DAKSHATA for medical officers (MO), community health officers (CHO) and staff nurses, organised by Longleng district health society concluded on Thursday at the conference hall of the chief medical officer’s (CMO) office in Longleng town.

DAKSHATA is a safe childbirth checklist including checks before birth and during birth and recording of mother's temperature, BP and fetal heart rate.

An update from the CMO stated that the training was designed for doctors, CHOs and nurses to update skills standardisation and empower them in improving MNH care during institutional deliveries.

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At the inaugural programme, Dr. Imtijungshi Aier, DPO (RCH/UIP), welcomed all the participants and highlighted the primary objective of the training, which was to enhance the skills and confidence of healthcare providers in delivering quality intrapartum and immediate postpartum care with an aim to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity.

He stated that the training was also aimed at empowering the healthcare providers to use their abilities effectively to improve outcomes for mother and newborns and also to strengthen the healthcare systems and provide quality services during childbirth across the district.

The resource person Dr. Nounenuo Terhase, senior specialist of Obgyn at District Hospital, Longleng, and Dr. Dennis Chingpen, senior specialist Obgyn at District Hospital, Longleng, conducted the training using a variety of training approaches to facilitate comprehensive learning.

Specific topics covered during the three-day training included routine care of mother and newborns, prevention, identification and management of complications like postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, new born resuscitation (NBR), new born infections, pre and post-test sessions, practice demonstration of normal delivery, importance and management of labour room, biomedical waste management, safe childbirth checklist (SCC), postpartum family planning counseling, recording and reporting.

Demonstrations, skill practice using models and mannequins, discussions of best practices and labour room visitation at DH, Longleng were other activities of the three-day training.