Postgraduate Institute of Medicine University of Colombo

Maternal and Child Health Management
Information System
According to the World Health Organization about 530,000 women die worldwide from
pregnancy related complications annually, with some 68,000 of these deaths resulting from
unsafe abortions. At the same time worldwide about 4 million babies die within the first
month of life, and more than 3 million die as stillbirths.
These figures reflect that much has to be done to
improve the Maternal and Child Health Services
worldwide.
Sri Lanka has excellent Maternal and Child Health
statistics reflecting the efficiency and the efficacy of its
Maternal and Child Health Care program. The Family
Health Bureau is responsible for program planning,
evaluation, research and policy formulation related to Maternal and Child Health Care
services in Sri Lanka. The Maternal and Child Care information system however, being a
paper-based system, is plagued with the usual problems inherent in such a system.
The proposed system to replace this paper based system was developed by customizing the
DHIS2 software package. DHIS2 is recommended by the World Health Organization as the
tool for management of aggregated health information. This Software was customized to
meet the needs of the Maternal and Child Health program.
Dr. Suboda Manoj
subodha.manoj@gmail.com
Supervisor:
Dr. Chitramalee De Silva
MBBS, MSc, MD
Member, Specialty Board in Biomedical Informatics
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