Approximately 10 million children under the ages of 5 and 500,000 women die each year from preventable diseases and childbirth-related causes. Millions more suffer marginalised health conditions that leave them vulnerable to recurring diseases, and lock them into a poverty cycle.
Poverty significantly impacts mortality and morbidity rates, with the poorest 20% of the global population having a 10 times higher likelihood of dying before age 14 compared to the richest 20%. In Uganda, the maternal mortality ratio is 336 deaths per 100,000 live births, and infant mortality is 43 deaths per 1,000 live births, with 42% occurring during the neonatal period.
ELOI Ministries believes that good health brings hope and dignity to individuals, being crucial for children’s well-being. They focus on community-level work, partnering with local communities and government providers to meet basic health needs. Their main objective is to enable communities and families to prevent poor health and advocate for the services they deserve.
Our objectives in Maternal Health Care focus on the reduction of maternal, perinatal, infant and childhood mortality, morbidity and the promotion of reproductive health and the physical and psychosocial development of the child within the family.
Reducing maternal (current status-2013:190 per live births), Perinatal (number of stillbirths and deaths in the first week of life per 1000 live births) infant (current status-2013: 41 per one thousand live births) and child mortality and morbidity rates.
Improving Postnatal Care for Newborns in Community.
Counseling of both teenage and elderly mothers
Providing enhanced health care packages through immunization, iron and folic acid supplements, vitamin provisions.
Participate in innovative partnerships like with Vitamin Angels to enhance maternal health
Capacity building on health workers on how to handle maternal health especially the youth. Training to the workers in effective supervision of the implementers as well as improve effective communication from staff.
Health talks on effects of pregnancy termination through interactive safe spaces with medical workers, peers.
A cadre of staff or volunteers who identify women in early months of pregnancy, and visit their houses as per the schedule of timed behavior Change Communication.
Improve women’s nutritional status through food fortification, feeding programs
Improve effective communication from staff hence empowering women to obtain better health care, education and social services.
Improve staff professionalism, empathy, and kindnesses for the healthy workers through periodic capacity building ventures.
Routine care for newborn immediately after birth to reduce mortality rate
Our objectives in Maternal Health Care focus on the reduction of maternal, perinatal, infant and childhood mortality and morbidity and the promotion of reproductive health and the physical and psychosocial development of the child and adolescent within the family.
Stopped preventable maternal deaths by making sure women can access care at every stage—before, during, and after her pregnancy as most of them are now committed to antenna.
Mobilized communities to identify danger signs in pregnancy—like post-partum hemorrhage—and activate transport systems, so women can reach facilities in time to save their lives.
Make sure every woman has access to the information and health care—from her home to the health facility—to safely deliver her baby and care for herself and her children.
Through immunization many children are healthy with a reduction in malnutrition.
Reduced still birth as women have access to all the antenna services before and during birth.
Men are involved during the antenna throughout the delivery time thus reducing the mortality in children.
Train providers on current standards and guidelines of care so they can counsel women throughout pregnancy and childbirth with dignity and respect.
Prevent the transmission of HIV from mother to child by testing and counseling, identifying and supporting pregnant women who are HIV-positive.
Women and volunteer workers have formed groups (safe space) where they share both health and social challenges to reduce mother to baby risk resulting from ignorance and anti-social behavior.
Make sure every woman has access to the information and health care—from her home to the health facility—to safely deliver her baby and care for herself and her children.
Created knowledge and awareness of the women’s health rights in regards to health worker-patient sexual harassment, disrespect, and harsh tone, segregation in sex, age and race.
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