A collaboration was made between the Tamil Nadu’s Directorate of Public Health (DPH) and Preventive Medicine with Singapore Health Services and Singapore International Foundation (SIF).
It aims to impart training on combined obstetric resuscitation emergencies and enhancing maternal and child health (EMCH) services.
With Phase One of the project complete and Phase Two now underway.
As a result, Tamil Nadu’s MMR fell to 52 per one lakh live births during 2022-2023, after the figure had surged to 90 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Under the next two years of the second phase, the EMCH project will train over 140 Maternal and Child Health (MCH) professionals in Tamil Nadu.
During Phase One, they successfully trained more than 1,000 local Maternal and Child Health (MCH) professionals in the State.