Online ISSN: 2515-8260

IMPLEMENTATION OF QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INBIRTH COMPANION POLICY AT GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL IN THE ‘NEW NORMAL’ OF COVID 19

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DR. SHRINIVAS GADAPPA,DR. SWATI A. BADGIRE ,DR. SONALI S DESHPANDE,DR. RUPALI GAIKWAD

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Introduction: Assuring pregnant women have access to safe birth and continuum of antenatal and postnatal care during COVID assuming great importance, though it indeed is challenging. With the numerous existing challenges in implementation of birth companion policies, COVID has made it more difficult to implement birth companion policy which has drastically reduced to a zero. The Health Ministry of India has advised “birth companion” during childbirth in all the public health facilities. This step is one of the parts of low-cost intervention initiated by the government of India to meet the sustainable development goals.

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