Tackling Stunting in Rwanda to Build Human Capital: Early Achievements and Strategic Priorities
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With World Bank support, the government of Rwanda has developed a bold new approach to tackle stunting, chronic malnutrition, with an enhanced package of multisectoral interventions. As a result, there has been a significant uptake in health and nutrition services, such as growth monitoring and micronutrient supplementation, expanded access to early childhood development services, and reforms to community-based delivery platforms.
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Rwanda has made remarkable progress on infant, child and maternal mortality, meeting or exceeding most goals. However, stunting remained stubbornly high at about 38 percent in 2015 and affected nearly 50 percent of the poorest children. In 2017, the government made a high-level political commitment to drastically reduce stunting, recognizing it impeded cognitive development, educational attainment, and lifetime earnings and deprived the econ
More women, who give birth at the Bono Regional Hospital in Sunyani, prefer Caesarean Section (CS) to normal deliveries, Mrs Susan Tiwaa, the Midwife in-charge of Maternity at the Regional hospital, has said. She said the women were of the view that CS was the safest and easiest way to be delivered of their babies. She said out of the nine babies born on December 31, 2020 at the facility, six of them were done through CS. The babies comprise five girls and four boys with their body weights ranging between 1.9 and 3.5 kilograms. However, Mrs Tiwaa told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the five babies born at the facility on January 1, 2020 were through normal deliveries.
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Cases of maternal deaths saw drastic reduction at the Bono Regional hospital in Sunyani with the facility recording only three cases in 2020 compared to 20 cases in 2019.
The Supervisor at the Antenatal Clinic of the hospital, Mrs Joval Nyarko-Ababio told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that anaemia, eclampsia and sickel cell contributed to most of the deaths.
She therefore appealed for monitors, BP apparatus and more doctors, assuring that the facility would not record any maternal death in 2021 if the needs were provided.
Earlier, the Bono Regional Minister, Mrs Evelyn Ama Kumi Richardson, visited various wards and feted patients on admission.
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Following five years of implementation since January 2015, FIGO’s Postpartum Intrauterine Device (PPIUD) Initiative is now wrapping up project activities and fully handing over responsibility for postpartum family planning (PPFP) services in the country to our partner, the Obstetrical and Gynecological Society of Bangladesh (OGSB). The project ran in six centres, with three outside of the capital and three within Dhaka.
PPIUD is an invaluable option for women postpartum in low-resource settings as it can be inserted immediately after delivery of the baby, meaning that women do not need to make regular and often long journeys back to health facilities to receive contraception.