Hafeez Assad, Zafar Shamsa, Qureshi Farrukh, Mirza Irfan, Bile Khalif, Southall David P
National Program for Family Planning & Primary Health Care, Federal Ministry of Health, Islamabad.
J Pak Med Assoc. 2009 Apr;59(4):243-6.
Our three years' experience of Essential Surgical Skills-Emergency Maternal and Child Health (ESS-EMCH) Programme in Pakistan suggests that despite a compromised healthcare delivery system, a tangible improvement in the management of emergencies in pregnancy, the neonate and children can be achieved by adopting a novel but robust mechanism of effective advocacy along with provision of innovative, evidence based and high quality training for healthcare staff.
