Cecilia Castillo, from the Ministry of Health, spoke with Radio Panorama about the activities carried out for the World Week of Respected Childbirth, in the training of health personnel to improve the quality of care.
From the 16th to the 22nd of May, the respected World Childbirth Week, date you are looking for Make visible all the rights around births, women and their babies with the aim of empowering families and avoiding obstetric violence.
From the province’s health ministry, Ms. Cecilia Castillocoordinator of the Women’s Area spoke about the activities carried out by the ministry, on Radio Panorama.
-What does a respected delivery include?
“In Argentina we have Law 25,929 on Humanized Childbirth, and this law obliges the entire health system to abide by us because every law comes to recognize rights and guarantee them. What we celebrate is that it is not a week, but respected childbirth must be like this permanently. Our task is to guarantee the rights to be informed throughout the process of pregnancy, childbirth and later, about the benefits of breastfeeding, rights to be respected in privacy and culture, respect the biological times of childbirth; the baby has the right to be identified; and that pregnant person has the right to be accompanied by the person she decides, among other rights.”
-The importance of talking about respected childbirth
“I think that with these new social currents, at this historical moment there is more awareness about friendlier ways to give birth, pregnant people have greater knowledge about their rights, and it is a great challenge for health teams to be able to guarantee them and enforce them. ”
-The training of professionals to guarantee the rights
“One of the strategies to avoid maternal and perinatal mortality that we are working on from the Ministry of Health of the province has to do with the execution of an interdisciplinary course of care for pregnant people. It is a course that was conceived thanks to the articulation of three institutions, the UNSE (Faculty of Humanities), with the College of Obstetricians and the Ministry of Health, through the different programs, with the support of Minister Natividad Nasif. The course that has the purpose of preparing the health teams that perform prenatal care and that accompany pregnant people throughout the process, with the intention of improving the quality of care”.
-Information workshops in hospitals and neighborhood upas
“In several places in the interior, different activities are being carried out with the aim of raising awareness of the rights of pregnant people. On Monday, a lactation center that is a friend of mothers and children was inaugurated, respecting the new law at the Clodomira hospital; In the CISB there were activities and in the Regional Hospital they entertained the interned women. In the upas videos have been exhibited and the subject has been discussed”.