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Improved Accessibility Of Emergency Obstetrics And Newborn Care (Emonc) Services For Maternal And Newborn Health: A Community Based Project, Ali Turab, Shabina Ariff, Atif Habib, Imran Ahmed, Masawar Hussain, Akhtar Rashid, Zahid Memon, M. Imran Khan, Sajid Soofi, Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Improved Accessibility Of Emergency Obstetrics And Newborn Care (Emonc) Services For Maternal And Newborn Health: A Community Based Project, Ali Turab, Shabina Ariff, Atif Habib, Imran Ahmed, Masawar Hussain, Akhtar Rashid, Zahid Memon, M. Imran Khan, Sajid Soofi, Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health
Background: Every year an estimated three million neonates die globally and two hundred thousand of these deaths occur in Pakistan. Majority of these neonates die in rural areas of underdeveloped countries from preventable causes (infections, complications related to low birth weight and prematurity). Similarly about three hundred thousand mother died in 2010 and Pakistan is among ten countries where sixty percent burden of these deaths is concentrated. Maternal and neonatal mortality remain to be unacceptably high in Pakistan especially in rural areas where more than half of births occur.
Method/Design: This community based cluster randomized controlled trial will …