UnangYakap Embraces 8,962 Healthcare Professionals

Dr. Mianne Silvestre, EINC Team Convenor and WHO Consultant, reports that at least 8,962 healthcare professionals are now aware or knowledgeable in essential intrapartum and newborn care (EINC) practices. We believe this means that mothers and newborns will benefit from safer, quality care from these health facilities.

“From October to May 2011, we tripled our goals when requests for the EINC training course, spontaneously came from private hospitals (12%) and public hospitals in provinces outside NCR (6%).

The biggest chunk of awareness still comes from those who attended lectures of our EINC team or talks provided at special forum (53%). But this number appears understated.

Dr. Silvestre pointed out that it does not capture the number of readers or listeners who have heard the DOH Family Health Office Director Dr. Ed Janairo or Dr. Anthony Calibo on radio and television talk about the benefits of adopting the EINC practices.