Improve maternal and child care through doctor and nurse trainings

The children born into ethnic minority groups are three times likely to die than those of Kinh majority group. There are many factors that cause the higher mortality rate among children under five in ethnic minority groups. Among them is the lack of trained doctors and health workers for mothers and children in remote mountainous villages.

 Last week, Save the Children helped train 21 doctors and nurses from three provinces of Yen Bai, Dac Lac and Ca Mau to improve the quality and consistent care for mothers and children. This a week trainer training aims to popularize the new standard of health care at all district, commune and village levels.

 This is a part of Save the Children maternal and child care programme that has supported 8 provinces to improve maternal and child care services through the use of hospital-to-household care continuum model since 2005.

“I see that this training course meets our desired effect. Especially, the practising trip helped us understand theory much better and faster” Tran Nguyet Hoang, a doctor from Ca Mau Province said.

 “All of us were very excited to apply the knowledge we have learned to real work, and share useful experience to our colleagues” Tran Van Quang – a doctor from Yen Bai Province said.