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HART is raising funds to train auxiliary midwives and emergency first responders in north-eastern Burma (Myanmar), where health services have collapsed since the military coup. Community health workers will provide a lifeline of information and medical aid to women and children in crisis.
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Situation
Many women in north-eastern Burma give birth alone, in unsafe conditions or as refugees. Babies and infants remain unvaccinated during their critical first years of life. Children suffer from injury, sickness and malnutrition. Meanwhile healthcare facilities have been destroyed by military offensives. Others are ill-equipped or lack available doctors to treat patients. The humanitarian consequences are severe. Families escaping attacks on their villages are unable to access life-saving support.
Solution
Training sessions for health workers will include essential first aid as well as triage for emergency cases, including CPR; airway management (use of ventilator); diabetic shock; seizures and strokes; and the management of burns and wounds. Following capacity-building sessions, the health workers will provide first aid training to 70 community members from 7 target areas. Further training and support for ante-natal, delivery and post-natal services will be provided for auxiliary midwives.
