Skilled Attendant – A Global Definition

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Skilled Attendant A Global Definition
Making Pregnancy Safer
Della R Sherratt Midwife Making Pregnancy
Safer WHO Geneva
XXX_DRS/Midwifery/April 2004
04/14/04
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Table 1 Attendant at delivery by region(Data
from most recent DHS surveys)
 
 
04/14/04
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Skilled Care

• Skilled Attendant functioning health systems
  facilities for EmOnC
• ..Skilled care

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WHO

• About to launch a Joint statement with ICM and
  FIGO (hopefully 5th May International Day of the
  Midwife)
• who can be counted in country reports
• what competencies
• what support
• suggestions for strategies

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Skilled Attendant

• Accredited health professional with competence to
  manage normal pregnancy, birth and postnatal
  period. Also able to recognise complications in
  woman and newborn and take immediate action -
  give LSS (EmOnC) and refer or manage
  complications in woman and newborn, depending on
  their competence and place of practice.

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Fig 1 Different months of training for
different cadres of workers providing maternity
care in SEARO countries
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Millennium Development Goal
Globally By 2015 - 90 of all births attended
by a skilled attendant. To achieve this the world
needs more midwives