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UNFPA supports Ministry of Health with equipment critical in building a strong healthcare work force

19 July 202119 July 2021 Editor

SIERRA LEONE – The United Nations Population Fund- UNFPA has donated to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation medical equipment critical to supporting emergency obstetric and newborn care (EmONC service provision) and in the screening and management of cervical cancer. The equipment donated includes cryotherapy apparatus, carbon dioxide gas cylinders, fetal dopplers, hemocoel, sterilizers, vaginal speculums- different types and sizes, forceps- different types and sizes, instrument trays, and gynecological models. The agency in collaboration with the Government of Sierra Leone has been providing maternal and newborn health services including Emergency…

UNFPA partners with AMREF to supply portable ultrasound technology in Kenya

16 July 202116 July 2021 Editor

KENYA – A partnership between UNFPA, AMREF International University and the Phillips Foundation, has made available portable ultrasound technology and the training to go with it to midwives from far-flung health centers in remote parts of Kenya. Such tools are often only available at specialist health facilities located in major towns and urban areas. As a result, pregnancy complications are often only identified at great effort and expense, too late for treatment, or not at all. “When midwives become proficient in providing basic obstetric ultrasound at point of care, early…