Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council

Box 4.4.5: RCH Services Provided in Ghana
Reproductive and Child Health
• Post-abortion services: aim to reduce deaths due to complications of abortion. It
includes emergency treatment for complication of abortions, educating the community on
the dangers and prevention of abortion and providing family planning services
• STI Management: Prevention, detection and treatment of sexually transmitted infections
including syphilis, gonorrhea, and HIV & AIDS
• Family planning: Provision of family planning counselling and services to clients
• Immunisation: a child who receives all the recommended vaccinations at the
appropriate times gets protection from some of the major diseases that kill under-five
children
• Other child health services: These include nutrition and appropriate management of
the sick child to prevent disease and death.
A woman should not die simply because she got pregnant. But in our communities, women
continue to die from pregnancy related causes. This is not acceptable because pregnancy is
not a disease. Also pregnancy related deaths don’t just happen – there are a series of events
and danger signs that lead to those final moments when we lose the woman or her baby or
both. These are called the danger signs of pregnancy.
Exercise 4.4.5
Objective
1. To discuss Antenatal Services
Time: 20minutes
Questions
1. What are some of the sings of pregnancy?
2. Why should mothers have regular check ups during
pregnancy?
3. What are some of the danger signs during pregnancy?
4. What should you do when you see a woman with
these symptoms?
Instructions to the
Facilitator
1. Discuss the need
for ANC care
during pregnancy.
2. Brainstorm and
write down
danger signs of
pregnancy.
3. Compare with
those listed in the
Box 4.4.6. and
4.4.7
In order to be able to detect danger sings during pregnancy, you must first be able to know
that a woman is pregnant. All pregnant women should be refered to the nearest health
facility. The reproductive services offered to women as indicated in the Box 4.4.5 take place
at various government establishments and some private health facilities in the country.
Box 4.4.6: Check up provided during pregnancy
• General health of the pregnant woman
• Position of the foetus
• Growth of foetus
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