title: Emergency maternal and child health training courses and advocacy to achieve millennium development goals in a poorly resourced country; challenges and opportunities.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: National Program for Family Planning & Primary Health Care, Federal Ministry of Health, Islamabad.
authors.forename: Assad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hafeez
authors.forename: Shamsa
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zafar
authors.forename: Farrukh
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Qureshi
authors.forename: Irfan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mirza
authors.forename: Khalif
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bile
authors.forename: David P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Southall
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004630:Emergencies; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005260:Female; D006078:Government Programs / Q000458:organization & administration; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006284:Health Plan Implementation; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008430:Maternal-Child Health Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008503:Medical Staff / Q000193:education; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010154:Pakistan; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D011247:Pregnancy; D015397:Program Evaluation