Status of Registered Pregnant women, Infants and Children at Community Clinic in Sylhet and Chattogram Divisions.

Abstract

Maternal and ≥ 2-year child mortality rate is still high in Bangladesh.The situationinSylhet and Chattogram divisions was worst. In this study we work on the pregnant women and the children ≥ 2 years who took support from the community clinic in Sylhet and Chattogram divisions.Secondary data was extracted from District HealthInformation system2(DHIS2),individual records system of Directorate General of HealthServices(DGHS),(January-October,2020).There are total 3179 community clinics inChattogram and Sylhet divisions.Our focal specific nutrition services for womenandchildren ≥ 2 years.For women, the specific nutrition services were provision of IFAsupplementation ≥30, weight monitoring, and nutrition counseling. Age specificcounselling on exclusive breastfeeding and complementary feeding were the specifiednutrition services for ≥ 2 years children.Overall, 80% of registered pregnant womenreceived specific maternal nutrition services at community clinic in Sylhet andChattogram divisions where the percentage for Sylhet and Chattogramwas 82 and79respectively. ≥ 2 years Children In February most 14589 of total enrolled of them12331number of children received appropriate counseling and In May less 4713 of total enrolled of them 4560 number of children received appropriate counseling in Sylhet &Chattogram Divisions. (January-October,2020).Monthly enrollment of pregnant womenand ≥ 2 years child was lower during May to July 2020 than rest of the study period.Theaim of this report was to understand the overall status of registered pregnant womenreceiving specified maternal nutrition services and registered infants and children aged≥2 years receiving specified nutrition services at community clinic in Sylhet andChattogram divisions.It has begun toward better nutrition and health services coveragerates ,which has been possible due to focus on specific maternal and child nutritioninterventions.Overall findings showed maternal and child nutrition services wasremarkably high in regarding individual tracker system during COVID-19 period.