Ulaanbaatar
UNFPA Mongolia holds National Consultation Meeting with national experts
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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The National
Consultative Meeting on ‘Universal access to sexual and reproductive health
services among women in Mongolia: towards zero-preventable maternal mortality’
project, which is the next phase of the well-known Telemedicine for Maternal
and Newborn project, took place on February 22, 2022 at Novotel Hotel in
Ulaanbaatar. The meeting’s goal was to identify key interventions of the new
project, which will be submitted to the Government of Luxembourg, which
supported all three previous phases of the project since 2007.
The consultation meeting was
organized by UNFPA Mongolia and was participated by representatives and
national experts from the Ministry of Health, the National Center for Maternal
and Child Health (NCMCH), Maternity Hospitals, Mongolian National University of
Medical Sciences, the Ulaanbaatar City Health Department, district health
centers, provincial health departments, the Heart Center of the Shastin
Hospital, WHO and UNICEF.
The project outlines the
interventions to improve sexual and reproductive health services in select
locations of Mongolia. This USD 7 million project for maternal health services
over four years, of which USD 4 million will be provided by the Government of
Luxembourg, significantly scales up the current resources of UNFPA and the
Ministry of Health to reduce preventable maternal deaths.
The project will build on the
experience from the implementation of the previous phases, Mongolian government
priorities, and comparative advances of the partners. Moreover, a promising
consensus has been reached by the participants to address the need for a
pediatric cardiac surgery unit at the NCMCH.
Source: UNFPA Mongolia
