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Over 1,000 healthcare professionals successful Tamil Nadu were trained successful maternal and kid healthcare arsenic portion of a collaboration betwixt the Singapore International Foundation, SingHealth, and Tamil Nadu’s Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.
The Enhancing Maternal and Child Health Services (EMCH) Project, which was launched successful 2015, was aimed astatine strengthening maternal and kid healthcare crossed Tamil Nadu. In signifier I (2015-2018), much than 1,000 healthcare professionals were trained and this contributed to reduced maternal mortality successful districts including Tiruchi, Chengalpattu and Pudukottai.
Building connected this, signifier II (2023-2025) extended its scope to Primary Health Centres, enhancing the absorption of high-risk pregnancies and neonatal emergencies. Another 144 professionals were trained and a caller cadre of Master Trainers were developed to prolong cognition sharing wrong the State’s healthcare ecosystem, according to a property release.
Thursday marked the decision of the 2nd signifier of the EMCH Project. Health Minister Ma. Subramanian on with Health Secretary P. Senthilkumar presented certificates to maestro trainers. Director of Public Health and Preventive Medicine A. Somasundaram noted determination was a simplification successful maternal deaths owed to grooming of healthcare professionals.
Between 2023 and 2025, doctors and nurses from Singapore’s KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital and SingHealth Polyclinics conducted multidisciplinary workshops that combined objective training, method assistance and protocol reappraisal for their counterparts crossed Tamil Nadu’s primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare institutions. These 144 professionals are present amended equipped to negociate obstetric and neonatal emergencies and precocious hazard pregnancies, the merchandise said. A full of 50 participants from the trained cohort were identified arsenic Master Trainers.
In a property merchandise issued by the Health department, Mr. Subramanian said that Tamil Nadu accounted for the 2nd lowest Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) successful the state (as per Sample Registration System’s Special Bulletin connected Maternal Mortality successful India 2021-2023).
The State’s MMR has been connected the diminution implicit the past 4 years.. It dropped from 90 per 1,00,000 unrecorded births successful 2021-2022 to 39.5 per 1,00,000 unrecorded births successful 2024-2025. The collaboration would assistance successful further simplification successful the MMR. The fig of maternal deaths decreased from 827 successful 2021-2022 to 320 successful 2024-2025. Every year, 6.90 lakh large women benefited from the Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy Maternity Benefit Scheme successful the State, the merchandise said.
Among others, Tan Yi Hao, Vice-Consul (Administration and Consular), Consulate-General of the Republic of Singapore, India (Chennai), Corinna Chan, main enforcement officer, Singapore International Foundation, Shephali Tagore, elder consultant, Department of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Director of O & G International Medical Programme and Arun Thamburaj, Mission Director, National Health Mission, Tamil Nadu were present.
