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Early Childhood Intervention in Neonatal and Maternal Health
The project was started following an Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) training in February 2020, where three Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH) Therapeutic Service employees (Occupational Therapist, Speech Therapist and Physiotherapist) identified a need to initiate a Task Team to address the specific early intervention needs of the Paediatric community at CMJAH. While there is an existing multidisciplinary team focus within the CMJAH Paediatric Therapeutic service unit, the high burden of care and fast-paced work environment has resulted in challenges in collaboration in planning, organising, evaluating, and implementing new strategies within the ECI service delivery. Therefore, the key reason for initiating the task team is to provide a framework for the early intervention services and a guidance to plan, monitor and evaluate these services towards holistic patient care. The primary focus of the CMJAH ECI Task team for the past 12 months pertains to evaluations and innovations within the neonatal and maternal health target populations. This innovation plays a pertinent role in ensuring that systems are implemented for early detection and identification, assessment, and management of patients with high-risk birth factors. This is important to reduce the impact of the vulnerabilities associated with high-risk birth factors on a child’s holistic development within their family context.
Date: 2026/01/23
Version: 0.1
Tags:
Public Health Innovations
Multidisciplinary Approach to Healthcare
Neonatal Health
Maternal Health
MomConnect
South Africa needs significant improvements to meet the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) for child and maternal mortality. It is recognised that a large number of child and maternal deaths could be avoided if some basic interventions are implemented at scale. Many pilot projects in a number of countries, have successfully used cell phone technology as a tool to improve interventions which have been shown to improve Maternal and Child Health (MCH) outcomes. In South Arica, virtually every pregnant woman has access to cell phone. It is therefore considered that appropriate access to cellphone technology has the potential to accelerate interventions of proven value.
Date: 2026/01/22
Version: 0.1
Tags:
mHealth
Mobile Technology Solutions
Public Health Innovations
Maternal Health
Neonatal Health
Quality Improvement Project on Triaging and Fast-tracking Maternity Patients
Patients at the Themba Hospital in Mpumalanga province were not triaged. They were attended on the basis of who came first unless labour was imminent or there was an emergency. This resulted in cases such as fetal distress, cord prolapse or uterine rupture not diagnosed immediately because patients had to wait for their turn. Many cases were not monitored. This contributed to poor maternal and fetal outcomes. The project aimed at creating a standardised and easy to use system for assessing and prioritising urgency of patients who were presented to the labour ward.
Date: 2026/01/22
Version: 0.1
Tags:
Maternal Health
Public Health Innovations
Neonatal Health