Campaign Launched to Improve Maternal and Child Health in China

The 2015 'Campaign to Improve Maternal and Child Health' was launched in Lishui, a city in east China's Zhejiang Province, on May 5. Wang Guoqiang (C), vice-director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, attended the launch ceremony. [gov.cn]

The 2015 "Campaign to Improve Maternal and Child Health" was launched in Lishui, a city in east China's Zhejiang Province, on May 5.

Jointly organized by the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) and the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) last year, the campaign has provided professional training and free lectures for medical staff and professionals in 10 of the country's provinces and municipalities.

Through various activities of the campaign, which has already reached those in cities and rural areas, extensive relevant knowledge and skills concerning maternal and child health were introduced to people from thousands of households. The campaign has played an important role in ensuring the health of women and children in China.

In 2015, the campaign will move on to cover another 11 provinces, with Lishui as its first stop. Health lectures, free diagnoses and treatments along with consulting activities will be offered for local people.

Wang Guoqiang, vice-director of the NHFPC, attended the launch ceremony. He made the very first call to the hotline set up for maternal and child health consultation and awarded the experts devoted to the campaign with certificates.

In his speech at the ceremony, Wang expressed his hope that medical staff involved in the 2015 campaign can carry forward the spirits of the model workers recently awarded ahead of Labor Day, so as to always meet the growing needs and expectations of women and children in healthcare. Also, departments of the NHFPC and the ACWF should step up their efforts in communication and cooperation while giving full play to their respective advantages, whereby substantial results will be produced for the sake of women and children involved.

Local governments of cities and provinces should embrace innovation and diverse sources and ideas, and only in this way can the campaign move forward with the times, Wang said.

(Source: gov.cn/Translated and edited by Women of China)