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RANGPUR, Mar 12, 2025 (BSS) – Ensuring reproductive healthcare and institutional delivery service at Union Health and Family Welfare Centers (UHFWCs) is crucial round the clock to further reduce maternal and child mortality in the country.
 
“Midwives working at UHFWCs should work sincerely for ensuring 24/7 hour institutional delivery service at grassroots levels,” Divisional Director of the Department of Family Planning for Rangpur division Dewan Morshed Kamal said today.
 
He said this at a function held at his office in the city for receiving logistics related to reproductive health services of the Reproductive Maternal Neonatal Child-Adolescent Health (SRMNCAH) project today.
 
Dewan Morshed Kamal and Deputy Director of the Department of Family Planning for Kurigram Md Modabber Hossain received the logistics related to reproductive health services of the SRMNCAH project from the Director of Community Health and Development Programme of LAMB Utpal Minj.
 
LAMB Project Manager Mahtab Liton and Facilitator Manjuara Begum were present at this time.

The Department of Health, Department of Family Planning and Department of Nursing and Midwifery with technical assistance of the Canadian Government and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Bangladesh, and LAMB is working as a development partner in implementing the project.
 
Initially, the project is being implemented to ensure 24/7 hour reproductive healthcare and institutional delivery service in eight remote UHFWCs of five upazilas in Kurigram to improve reproductive healthcare and reduce maternal and child mortality.
 
Dewan Morshed Kamal said that the SRMNCAH project is being implemented in remote char areas of Kurigram to provide care to pregnant women, mothers, child care and counseling to adolescents and family planning services by skilled midwives.
 
“Implementation of the project will also raise public awareness about the importance of institutional and normal deliveries and help strengthen the referral system and identify patients with via and fistula for their referral and timely treatment,” he said.
 
He called on midwives working in the UHFWCs and all concerned for successful implementation of the project by ensuring 24/7 hour institutional delivery service at grassroots levels to achieve the sustainable development goals on time.