Bishkek, Jan. 27, 2022. / Kabar /. The Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan hosted on Thursday a roundtable to discuss results and recommendations for reducing preventable newborn deaths and improving the quality of care.
The press service of the ministry reported that during the meeting, managers and specialists of perinatal services discussed the Second National Perinatal Audit Report from 6 pilot maternity hospitals and developed recommendations to reduce preventable newborn deaths.
Data from the United Nations Inter-Agency Panel (hereafter, UNIAP) show significant progress in reducing infant mortality. According to the 2020 estimates, the decrease in child mortality in Kyrgyzstan relative to 1990 levels was 73%.
According to the National Statistics Committee of Kyrgyzstan, over the past fifteen years the country has managed to reduce infant mortality overall (from 19.0 in 2004 to 12.7 in 2020), with a 40.0% decrease in first-week mortality and a 32.6% decrease in stillbirth rate.
But despite progress, the mortality rate among newborns in Kyrgyzstan remains high: about 80% of deaths among children under one year of age in the republic occur in the first 28 days of life, i.e. among newborns.
In order to understand why this happens and what to do to prevent these cases, the Ministry of Health, with the support of UNICEF under the Mother and Child Health Services Strengthening Project funded by the Government of Japan, has been introducing the Confidential Perinatal Audit in Kyrgyzstan since 2018.
Perinatal Audit is a tool for systematic critical analysis of the quality of perinatal care at all levels, analysis of the causes of mortality among newborns and stillbirths.
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