Maternal and perinatal health are priority issues throughout the world, and for Jalisco it is no exception.
The dissemination of preventive actions of the Maternal Health Program in the different levels of care is essential for the awareness of the population and the reduction of maternal death.
Therefore, the Maternal Health Program of the OPD Jalisco Health Services implements the institutionalization of "Healthy Pregnancy Day," in the first level Units and Obstetric Care Units throughout the state, being celebrated on the first Tuesday of each month. The initiative seeks to bring the different services, programs, and care to all women at this stage or who wish to become pregnant.
The actions range from pre-pregnancy care, adequate control during pregnancy, to timely monitoring of the puerperium stage, promotion of breastfeeding, and newborn care.
During her intervention in the virtual protocol act, the medical director of the OPD Jalisco Health Services OPD, Janett Alvarado González, invited the population to know and disseminate as well as get closer to the actions of this scheme.
Carlos Armando Ruíz Esparza Macías, director of Prevention and Health Promotion of the OPD Jalisco Health Services, said that public policies are being sought to strengthen and improve care, especially at the first level of medical care.
"This day aims to promote and disseminate all those preventive actions that sensitize the population about the importance of prevention on this issue of improving maternal health, and of course, thereby reducing the number of maternal deaths," said the director.
In addition, Esparza Macías invited the population to be aware of the importance of prevention and to attend not only prenatal care, but also pre-pregnancy care and the identification of risk factors that contribute to having a healthy pregnancy.
Carlos Bautizta Nuño, state coordinator of the Maternal Health Program reported that it will be through various communication media, social networks, and platforms. "The above is for the purpose of increasing the scope of preventive actions in Maternal Health, promote pre-pregnancy care in the entire population, socialize the importance of timely prenatal control as well as postpartum consultation, identification of risk factors, increase the recruitment of users in the first level of care, and the standardization of criteria for care, assessment , reference and counter-reference within the state,” indicated the coordinator.
Finally Sofía Reynosa Delgado, president of the promoting committee "For a Safe Maternity in Mexico Jalisco Chapter A.C.," thanked the invitation to the activities and recognized the effort of all the actors of the Jalisco Health system, which is recognized by society in general.
“Co-responsibility in public health implies both the participation of health sector authorities at all levels of government and of society as a whole to allow the total effectiveness and efficiency of health programs or policies. Jalisco is a State of which we are proud and that is identified in our country as a prosperous state in all aspects, and one of them is precisely maternal health, and we celebrate from organized civil society the institutionalization of healthy pregnancy in the entity," the president concluded.
Preventive Actions in the First and Second Level Care Units
With a preventive approach and with emphasis on timely and quality care in cases of obstetric emergency, by identifying alarm signs and symptoms during pregnancy including those related to COVID, preventive strategies include:
Detection of risk factors during pregnancy through the Obstetric Risk Assessment Table, an instrument designed by the OPD Jalisco Health Services.
HIV-Syphilis screening, a rapid test performed on all pregnant women to detect and treat these diseases and thus avoid vertical transmission in newborns.
Folic acid supplementation to prevent neural tube defects in the newborn.
Strategy of obstetric godmothers and godfathers; where the pregnant woman and a member of her family or close to her are involved and trained to have her support.
Granting of the Security Plan; which implies that the pregnant woman must anticipate the event of childbirth and know the place where she can receive care.