hospitals
5 July 2006
Top departmental officials accompanied by a delegation from the National
Department of Health will join MEC for Health in the province Mrs Nomonde
Rasmeni, when she officially launches the Perinatal Problem Identification
Program (PPIP) on 6 July 2006 from 10h00 in the morning at Barolong
Recreational Hall.
Perinatal Problem Identification Program is a Perinatal Care Survey program
that is used to investigate the causes of perinatal deaths. The program uses an
ICA solution audit system which stands for Identification, Cause, and Avoidable
factor of maternal and perinatal deaths and all deliveries. From this the
maternal and perinatal mortality rates, (MMR and PNMR), the stillborn rate, the
neonatal death rate, the low birth weight rate, the weight specific mortality
rates, the perinatal care index are calculated.
Causes of maternal and perinatal deaths are derived through auditing of
death records and thereafter patterns of diseases will determine the priorities
in management, allocation of resources and research.
Analysis of each death is used to determine avoidable factors, which will
indicate if there were missed opportunities. The analysis gives an indication
of how the health delivery system is functioning and assists in identifying if
avoidable factors are patient, medical personnel or administration related.
"The program gives a good reflection of the magnitude of the problem of
perinatal care in the area, whether at the hospital, sub district, provincial
and national level, it provides information on why babies are dying and also
directs health workers to areas where the greatest improvements can be made.
This is not a new program, what we are doing is that we are reinforcing more
efforts so that this program can run smoothly as envisaged by the department",
said MEC Rasmeni.
The program was launched in the year 2000 and has since been implemented at
eight hospitals known as PPIP Sites which includes Mafikeng Provincial,
Rustenburg Provincial, Klerksdorp Provincial, Thusong Hospital, Gelukspan
Hospital, Zeerust Hospital and Potchefstroom Hospital. We are expanding the
services of this Program and we have robbed other hospitals like Vryburg,
Ganyesa, Christiana Bloemhof, Taung, Schweizer Reneke, Nic Bodenstein and
Ventersdorp Hospitals to provide these services to our community. This will
bring the total of PPIP sites to 17.
The expansion of PPIP to other facilities is a long-term plan that will
continue until all hospitals practise the program efficiently, and thereafter
the implementation will be expanded to clinics, especially the health centres
as they render 24 hours maternity services. During the day I will also hand
over ten computers to PPIP users and more staff, particularly midwives and
doctors, will be work shopped provide this service", concluded MEC Rasmeni
Members of the media are invited to join MEC during this launch
Enquiries:
Mr Isaac Mokaila
Tel: (018) 387 5813
Cell: 073 742 3906
Issued by: Department of Health, North West Provincial Government
5 July 2006
