Project Details


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Reduce Childhood Mortality Rate: Infants and Children under 5 years of Age


Description

With Mother and Child system, Ministry of Health (MoH) is providing holistic primary care for pregnant mothers (pre and post natal care) at all medical centres and towards birth at the tertiary hospital. The records are made available throughout pregnancy by recording patient history for mothers and children then integrate that in Childhood Illnesses System. Due to this system, Oman succeeded in reducing maternal mortality rate in childbirth from 22 (per 100,000 live births) in 1995 to 13.4 in 2009, and the Infant Mortality Rate of 20 (per 1,000 live births) in 1995 to 9.6 in 2009.

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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C7. E-health 2013
Millennium development goals related to this project
  • Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
  • Goal 5: Improve maternal health

Coverage

Status

Completed

Start date

01 January 2001

End date

26 December 2012


Entity name

Information Technology Authority

Entity country—type

Oman Government

Entity website

http://www.ita.gov.om