INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kathmandu, December 27
With the aim to incorporate recent policy and technical advancement, Family Welfare Division has updated clinical
protocols on reproductive health.
Dissemination of information on reproductive health clinical protocol was done amidst an event held in the
capital today.
The protocol designed for medical officers, staff nurses/ANMs and paramedics includes nine components — family planning,
safe motherhood, newborn care, sexually transmitted infections/HIV/AIDS, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, prevention and
management of infertility, safe abortion service, gynaecological morbidity and gender-based violence.
The protocol provides details on
what health practitioners should do when a patient visits the health centre with reproductive health problems
Protocol presented in texts, flow charts and pictures will guide healthcare practitioners to provide quality reproductive healthcare
services.
The protocol helps health practitioners for accurate diagnosis, examination and treatment of patients as it instructs the health
practitioners in preparing summary of the case, explains about treatment for the health problems and also explains in detail about the need
for referral and process of referral to the patients and his/her family.
&The objectives of the protocol are to improve the quality of
reproductive health care for women, men, children and adolescents through evidence-based protocol, to standardise reproductive health care
at different levels of healthcare and enhance the level of performance to ensure quality, to improve efficiency and better utilisation of
service and to instil culture of accountability in the health system,& said Dr Punya Paudel, chief of the safe motherhood programme at
Family Health Division.
&The new clinical protocol is developed as a guide for health workers to deliver quality reproductive service in
Nepal and will be made accessible for all across the country,& said Dr Bhim Singh Tinkari, director of Family Health Division.
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