Clinical management of dengue infection in pregnancy

Abstract

Guidelines NATIONAL FETO-INFANT MORTALITY SURVEILLANCE MECHANISM With the reduction of maternal mortality and infant mortality to lower levels and a majority of the infant deaths are concentrated in the early neonatal period , feto-infant mortality surveillance plays a crucial role in improving maternal and child health service delivery and also further reduction of infant mortality. It also contributes to the availability of quality feto-infant mortality data. Surveillance of feto-infant deaths involves the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data related to feto-infant deaths, essential to the planning, implementation and evaluation of public health practice, closely integrated with the dissemination of these data to those who need to know and linked to prevention and control of such deaths. Ministry of Health has introduced a feto-infant mortality surveillance mechanism, with Family Health Bureau (FHB), as the national nodal point. The following diagram schematically depicts the national feto-infant mortality surveillance mechanism.