MoU inked to improve health services in KP
Peshawar
December 15, 2020
PESHAWAR: Various stakeholders have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the launching of an integrated maternal, newborn, child health, and immunization pilot project.
The memorandum has been signed by Peshawar Medical College (PMC), Department of Health Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Trust for Vaccines & Immunizations (TVI), Prime Foundation (PF), Aga Khan University, Karachi and the Centre for Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, Canada.
The objectives of the project are to improve the MNCH practices and services, particularly in the COVID-19 context including routine childhood immunization, improved breastfeeding practices, handwashing promotion, best possible sanitary practices, and optimal diarrhoea management, to enhance community engagement and knowledge to improve care-seeking behaviours and health behaviours, to create a replicable model of private health sector engagement that can