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GUIDANCE: A gynaecologist counselling pregnant women and their family members at a workshop in Tiruchi on Wednesday. TIRUCHI: Family participation is crucial to keeping up the psychological and physical health of pregnant women and, hence, the members must undergo periodic counselling along with the women, medicos at a workshop on ‘Partnership for maternal, newborn and child health’ said. The workshop, held at the Indian Medical Association on Wednesday, witnessed discussions on issues concerning pregnancy. Inaugurating ‘Partnership,’ a project of the All-Tamil Federation of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (ATFOG) and the Tiruchi Branch of Indian Medical Association (IMA) at the workshop, State IMA president M. Mohandass said the scope of the project would be extended to rural areas, with a team of doctors visiting remote villages to offer antenatal counselling for pregnant women and family members. Infant and maternal mortality rates had come down, but myths about pregnancy were largely doing the rounds even in urban areas. Promoting safe family planning methods and the need for breastfeeding the newborns were key agendas of the project. Five per cent of antenatal mothers in India were anaemic and the rates had not gone down despite the increase in institutional deliveries. Workshops under the project would stress the importance of nutritious diet and moderate exercises. On the myths and misconceptions of pregnancy, Dean of K.A .P. Viswanatham Medical College P. Ravishankar said women were apprehensive of pregnancy-related fallacies, which led to undue psychological depression. Educating women on the medical aspects of gestation and encouraging them to seek the advice of doctors when in doubt would go a long way in cutting down infant and maternal mortality rates. Incoming IMA State president R. Gunasekaran detailed the maternity and child health projects of the association. ATFOG honorary secretary Jayam Kannan said the onus was on family members to encourage antenatal mothers to seek medical advice right from the first month of pregnancy. “Increasing institutional deliveries is a healthy sign towards controlling maternal mortality rates. But family expectations increase the stress on pregnant women. The psychological pressures add to the maternal complications. Our workshops aim at counselling spouses and in-laws to encourage domestic participation,” she said speaking on the sidelines of the workshop. Vice-president (East Zone) of IMA, State branch, P. Ramakrishnan, and Reader in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, K.A. P.V. Medical College, K. Rukmani, president of Tiruchi Branch of IMA S.K. Mohamed Lebbay and honorary secretary P. R. Prabhu Elango offered felicitations.
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