A joint delegation of 29 academicians from different medical universities and colleges of Punjab, Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa along with representatives of World Health Organisation (WHO) visited Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS) Jamshoro on Tuesday evening.
A University spokesman informed here on Wednesday that the visit was arranged by the World Health Organisation in collaboration with Maternal, Neonate and Child Health (MNCH) Programme of Sindh Government with the objective to observe the Pre-Service Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (IMNCH) which has been adopted by LUMHS for the teaching of undergraduate students.
While talking to the delegation members, Dean Medicine and Allied Sciences LUMHS Professor Salma Shaikh, informed that nearly 11 million children die every year before reaching their fifth birthday. In response to this challenge, WHO and UNICEF developed Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) early in the decade of 1990, she said and informed that IMCI is a strategy designed to reduce child mortality and morbidity in developing countries. She said that the approach focuses on the major causes of deaths in children through improving case management skills of health workers, strengthening the health system, and addressing family and community practices.
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