- Provide antenatal, intranatal and postnatal care including family planning services to women.
- Monitor growth and development in children from infancy to the adolescent period.
- Provide vaccination services to pregnant women, children and adults in Guyana.
- Maintain zero infant and childhood/adulthood morbidity and mortality from vaccine preventable diseases.
- Establish and monitor standards, procedures and protocols of care including the clarification of roles and responsibilities of the different levels of care.
- Strengthen the health information system, utilizing the data for planning.
- Establish and implement a system for continuous evaluation of Maternal and Child Health Services.
- Monitor trends in newborn, infant, child, adolescent, family and maternal illness with emphasis on malnutrition, anaemia and acute diarrhoeal and respiratory infections.
- Foster and support research in Maternal and Newborn, Infant and Child Health including health systems research.
- Identify training needs of staff involved in the delivery of Maternal and Child Health Services.
- Advise on the introduction of appropriate technology for Maternal and Child Health.
- Re-orient health services on sexual and reproductive health focusing on the involvement of males.
- Increase awareness on women, families and communities to the value of maternal and neo-natal health.
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D.33 - Guarantee sexual and reproductive health and rights
Promote, protect and guarantee sexual health and rights and reproductive rights in order to contribute to the fulfilment of persons and to social justice in a society free from all forms of discrimination and violence.
D.40 - Eliminate causes of maternal morbidity and mortality
Eliminate preventable cases of maternal morbidity and mortality, including, within the set of integrated benefits of sexual health and reproductive health services, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortion, including sexual health and reproductive health education, access to modern and effective contraceptive methods, counselling and comprehensive care in cases of unwanted and unaccepted pregnancy, as well as comprehensive post-abortion care, where necessary, on the basis of a risk- and harm-reduction strategy.
D.43 - Comprehensive health care in the reproductive process for all women
Ensure that all women have effective access to comprehensive health care during the reproductive process and specifically to skilled, institutional, compassionate obstetric care and to the best possible maternal health services during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium, as well as to services that include the termination of pregnancy in those cases where the law provides for such services, and guarantee universal access to assisted fertility treatments.
D.45 - Detection of pregnancy disorders
Formulate plans for strengthening mechanisms for detecting problems during pregnancy, including at the preconception stage, improve the quality of antenatal care to include an intercultural perspective, guarantee the provision of a safe supply of blood for care during pregnancy, childbirth and the post-partum and puerperium period, and enhance compassionate care during delivery and birth and comprehensive perinatal care, bearing in mind the needs of women, boys, girls and families.