Provide dignified care to women in labour room: PGI professor

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 30

A continued medical education (CME) on evidence-based intra-partum practices and family planning services was organised by the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the Community Medicine and School of Public Health in collaboration with United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

The aim was to impart up-to-date knowledge on intra-partum (medical care given to a pregnant woman during labour and delivery) practices and family planning services among the service providers in the labour room and antenatal clinics in the northern region, including Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Delhi. More than 100 delegates participated in the CME.

The CME was inaugurated by Dr Arvind Rajwanshi, Dean, Academics, PGIMER. Dr Vanita Suri, Prof and Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, PGIMER, updated the delegates on the latest evidence based intra-natal care to be practiced during delivery in the labour room.

Dr Sonia Trikha, Executive Director, State Health Resource Centre, Haryana, shared how evidence-based intra-natal care practices could be implemented in the public health system.

Dr Madhu Gupta, prof, Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, emphasised the need to provide dignified care to women in the labour room during delivery.