ARMMAN’s high risk pregnancy training empowers nurses to demand for focussed Antenatal Care Days

Our Integrated High Risk Pregnancy Tracking and Management (IHRPTM) Programme, expanded to Uttar Pradesh in May 2024. The programme began with the training of Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs), Community Health Officers, Staff Nurses, Medical Officers and Specialists, in Sambhal and aspirational district of Shravasti.

Post the training, our interactions with the ANMs revealed that the nurses were struggling to focus on delivering maternal health services in the midst of many other activities like immunisation, ANC check-ups, screening of children for malnutrition, family planning services, counselling services, digital entries and other community engagements. They demanded to schedule a dedicated day to ensure that they can apply their learning from the high risk pregnancy protocols training provided by ARMMAN.

 

We presented this feedback to the district officials in Sambhal and Shravasti. On November 14, 2024, an ANC clinic was inaugurated in the aspirational district of Shravasti, a significant step in enhancing care for pregnant women. The district also announced that the first and third Thursday of every month will be observed as the ANC clinic days. Sambhal district also announced Thursdays as the ANC Clinic Days.

 

The IHRPTM programme focusses on training and supporting Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs), Medical Officers (MOs) and Specialist Doctors on high risk pregnancy tracking, management and referral. The programme is currently implemented in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh and more than 15,000 ANMs, MOs and Specialists have been trained in high risk pregnancy protocols.