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Family Care worked with local health staff to upgrade record keeping
systems which were badly deficient in some areas. Working with local senior
health professionals, the project achieved the redesign and region-wide
distribution of maternal record folders.
These contain complete prenatal, delivery and post natal records of mother
and baby as well as laboratory results and special care notes of sick
newborn. They are widely used at every level and are completed for referral
and returned to the referring facility.
Improving accountability came as a result of clearer record keeping and
with this midwives also gradually expanded their role. Report forms were
redesigned and perinatal definitions updated to currently accepted international
definitions.
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