Improving Maternal and Child Health (MCH) is one of MAP’s key priorities. This is particularly critical in Gaza, where there are approximately 50,000 pregnancies every year and 3,700 newborns are expected to be identified as high-risk cases.
In response to this need, with the support of MAP trustee Dr Ezzedin Gouta, we have trained 182 doctors, nurses and midwives on neonatal life support (NLS) and resuscitation since 2008.
The course is entitled ‘Through simple and organized procedures, within the first minutes of life, a newborn’s life can be saved’. Given the on-going need for such training, MAP aims to run it twice a year.
The latest MAP-supported NLS training course took place through two days (12th and 13th November), and was attended by 30 doctors nurses and midwifes currently working at neonatal and maternal units in Gaza. Dr Gouta was supported by ten local instructors who had completed a training-of-trainers course.
The course will enhance Palestinian medics ability to save the lives of newborn children.