Mother’s Health: A Top Priority of Health System

Dr. Mohammadjavad Yazdani, the director of Kashmar Health and Treatment Network asserted: considering population increase policies, the concern of mothers’ health is among serious first priorities that must be taken into account.

According to WebDa, in the educational workshop of “recognizing risky pregnancies with the approach of preventing maternal death” held with the presence of specialists in gynecology, obstetrics, midwifery, general practitioners, and health specialists from Kashmar, Khalil Abad and Bardaskan, Dr. Yazdani spoke of the number of mothers in danger as to the increase in the age of fertility. He emphasized that there should be more plans with this regard to not only prevent the risks accompanied with pregnancy, but also be able to decrease maternal death to zero and attempt to help labors proceed successfully so that we witness handing in healthy mothers and babies to society.

 The director of Kashmar Health and Treatment Network expressed his satisfaction from the activities and measures undertaken in recent years regarding the increase in the number of health houses and health and hygiene centers, extending labor blocks, and the increase in the number of specialist doctors and midwifes, and pointed out: the provision of facilities and presence of skillful specialist work forces in this domain will indeed lead to successful deliveries. Hence, the most important measures to be undertaken in this scope is directed to concerns about pregnant mothers at risk.

He referred to 5,000 deliveries annually recorded in Kashmar, Bardaskan, and Khalil Abad and emphasized that: along with this, it is necessary to have extensive planning to witness healthy child birth and post-labor mother’s health.

Dr. Yazdani spoke of the significant and influential role of education and elevating scientific knowledge by means of holding educational workshops, and pointed out: hopefully the index of this town in the first 6 month of this year has been favorable, as there has been a significant decrease in infant mortality.

Dr. Nafiseh Saghafi, the head of gynecology and obstetrics department of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, considered health as the biggest asset and asserted that: humans would rarely understand the value of their health unless they get inflicted with pain or an ailment. We Thank God Almighty because society’s welfare is provided by the health, hygiene and treatment personnel, and we can each have a role in offering health care services.

“Maternal death is an important health index. Along with this, societies attempt to have a favorable index with this regard by preventing and decreasing infant mortality and maternal death”, she averred, “as pregnancy and labor are not considered as ailments, some planning and measures must be undertaken to prevent mortality in pregnant women”.

She referred to some emphases on population increase and pointed out: it is essential for those who plan to get pregnant to refer to health and hygiene centers and benefit from specialist consultations and health care services.

It is worth noting that in this one-day educational workshop, a group of gynecologists, obstetrics, general practitioners, midwifes and health specialists from Kashmar, Khalil Abad and Bardaskan cities enjoyed a variety of courses under the supervision of faculty members of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences: Dr. Nafiseh Saghafi, Dr. Atieh Vatanchi and Dr. Sara Mirzaeian. These courses were in the scopes of pre-pregnancy concerns and counselling, pregnancy cares, cardiovascular diseases in pregnancy, hypertensive diseases in pregnancy, thromboembolism diseases in pregnancy, diabetes in pregnancy, nausea and vomiting in pregnancy and the risk of bleeding factors after the labor.