43. Emergency Obstetric Care: Critical Need among Populations Affected by Conflict (pdf 2004)
From Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium. As a part of Columbia University's Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program, the Reproductive Health Response in Conflict (RHRC) Consortium implemented 12 pilot emergency obstetric care (EmOC) projects in the following nine countries: Bosnia, Kenya, Liberia, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Southern Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand and Uganda.
Prior to designing the individual project interventions, the RHRC Consortium EmOC technical advisor and field staff conducted assessments to document EmOC activities in those conflict-affected settings and design pilot projects to address critical needs. The assessments were conducted in 2001, except for those in Pakistan and Uganda, which were completed in 2002.
The goal of the project was to avert maternal death and disability among approximately 40,500 women from conflict-affected populations and the purpose was to establish or improve Basic and Comprehensive EmOC services at health centers and hospitals responding to the emergency obstetric needs of refugees and others of reproductive age living within and around the refugee communities....
