Workshop to help reduce child mortality begins today
A Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) workshop, which seeks to reduce child mortality, begins here today.{{more}}
The workshop, which is being conducted by the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment, in collaboration with the World Pediatric Project and the Pan American Health Organisation, is taking place at the HIV/AIDS secretariat at Largo Heights.
The two-day Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) workshop aims to help meet the Millennium Development Goal in the reduction of child mortality by addressing one of the most important causes of neonatal death: intrapartum-related events (birth asphyxia). According to a release from the Ministry, HBB is an evidence-based educational programme which teaches the simple steps that effectively resuscitate the majority of infants not breathing at birth.
âHBB can be used at all levels in the health system. It extends resuscitation training to first-level health facilities and health workers in resource-limited settings, where these skills are most lacking. It also can be used in higher-level health facilities, including tertiary facilities, where it complements, but does not replace, comprehensive resuscitation programmes,â the release said.
The workshop begins at 9 this morning.
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