Graciela Martinez Gonzalez
The National Department of Health has identified maternal and new-born health care as a priority area requiring urgent action in South Africa. The Saving Mothers and Saving Babies Reports have recommended regular updating and strengthening of guidelines on the clinical management of the common causes of maternal and new-born deaths in South Africa, hence the publishing of the updated National Integrated Maternal and Perinatal Care Guidelines for South Africa. The guidelines contain the basic minimum that needs to be known by all professional nurses, clinical associates and doctors. Their use will lower high maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality rates and improve the quality of care for women, their babies, and their families.
Respectful maternity care
Normal labour and delivery - intrapartum care
Abnormal labour and delivery
Basic ultrasound at district level
Guidelines for perinatal review meetings
Responding to a maternal death
Caesarean delivery
APH / PPH / blood transfusion
Puerperal sepsis
HIV and TB in pregnancy
COVID / Infections in pregnancy
Routine/complicated PNC + Contraception
Cancer in pregnancy
7 Clinical and 1 Ethics Points
Skills / Knowledge
- Maternal health care
- Clinical management
- Intrapartum care
- Ultrasound skills
- Perinatal review