Showing posts with label Malnutrition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malnutrition. Show all posts

Monday, June 3, 2019

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရွိ ပဋိပကၡျဖစ္ပြားရာေဒသမ်ားမွ အာဟာရခ်ဳိ႕တဲ့မႈေတြအတြက္ စဥ္းစားကိုင္တြယ္ေျဖရွင္းျခင္း

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္၊ ၂၀၁၉ ခုႏွစ္ ေမလ ၁၄ ရက္ - ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ ႏွစ္လခန္႔ကစၿပီး အသက္ ၁၈ လအရြယ္ ႏူးရ္ဘူရွာေလးဟာ ျပင္းထန္အာဟာရခ်ဳိ႕တဲ့ေဝဒနာခံစားေနရတဲ့အတြက္ ယူနီဆက္အဖြဲ႔ႀကီးက ပံ့ပိုးေပးထားတဲ့ ေမာင္ေတာ ငတ္မြတ္ေခါင္းပါးမႈ တိုက္ဖ်က္ေရးအဖြဲ႔ ျပင္ပလူနာဌာန ကုထုံးအစီအစဥ္ (OTP) ကေန ျဖည့္စြက္အာဟာရေတြနဲ႔ ကုထုံးေတြကို လက္ခံရယူလ်က္ရွိပါတယ္။

အစီအစဥ္ကို စတင္ေရာက္ရွိလာခဲ့ခ်ိန္က ႏူးရ္ဘူရွာရဲ႕ ကိုယ္အေလးခ်ိန္ဟာ ခုနစ္ကီလိုဂရမ္ပဲ ရွိပါတယ္။ ကုထုံးရဲ႕ ေက်းဇူးေတြေၾကာင့္ သူ႔ရဲ႕ကိုယ္အေလးခ်ိန္နဲ႔ ဘက္စုံအေျခအေနေတြ တျဖည္းျဖည္း တိုးတက္လာခဲ့ၿပီလို႔ မိခင္ျဖစ္သူ ေဒလ္ေကယက္စ္ ကေျပာျပပါတယ္။ သူက အခုဆုိရင္ ပိုၿပီးေဆာ့တတ္လာၿပီး သူ႔အေလးခ်ိန္လည္း တစ္ကီလုိဂရမ္ေတာင္ တက္လာတယ္လို႔ ေဒလ္ေကယက္စ္က အၿပဳံးေတြနဲ႔ ေျပာျပလာပါတယ္။

ေမာင္ေတာျမိဳ႕ရွိ အသက္ ၁၈ လအရြယ္ ႏူးရ္ဘူရွာ
©UNICEF Myanmar/2019/Khin Moe Aye

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Overcoming the challenges to survive - the story of baby Chit Htun

In Myanmar, prematurity is a leading cause of death in the first year and the Ayeyarwady region records the highest levels of neonatal mortality nationally.

Maternal malnutrition, poverty, lack of health education and a lack of access to antenatal care make the early stages of life very difficult, particularly in rural areas. In many cases hypothermia, a leading cause of infant death often goes unrecognised and untreated, likewise, low blood sugar (hypoglycaemia) and a low level of oxygen (hypoxia).

©2018/Myaung Mya Paediatric Team
For those who are admitted to neonatal units malnutrition is a problem. There are often delays feeding and supportive feeding approaches such as nasogastric (NG) feeding are not routine. Units experience nursing and medical shortages and staff change department frequently which means staff often find it difficult to practice in the most effective way.


The limited number of working incubators, monitoring equipment, infusion pumps, and laboratory facilities, combined with power cuts, overcrowding of hospital wards mean babies face daily challenges. Infection control management is difficult across all areas of hospital care for babies and children.

Friday, July 20, 2018

က်န္းမာေရးအသိပညာေပး ရရိွျခင္းအားျဖင့္ ကေလးမ်ားဘဝတိုးတက္ျမင့္မားလာေစျခင္း

ေရးသားသူ - ထက္ထက္ဦး

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၊ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္တြင္ ကေလးငယ္မ်ားအား က်န္းမာေရးႏွင့္ ညီညႊတ္သည့္ အစားအစာေကၽြးျခင္း အေၾကာင္းကို က်န္းမာေရး ပညာေပးသူမ်ားမွ ရိုးရွင္းစြာသရုပ္ျပ

တစ္ႏွစ္ေအာက္ကေလးႏွင့္ ကေလးငယ္မ်ားအား အစာေကၽြးျခင္းအေလ႔အထအၾကာင္းကို မိခင္မ်ားအား ရပ္ရြာလူထုအုပ္စုလုိက္ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲတြင္ သားဖြားဆရာမ မေအးေအးေအာင္မွ ဦးေဆာင္ေဆြးေႏြးစဥ္။
©UNICEF Myanmar/2018/Nyan Zay Htet

က်ိဳင္းတံု၊ ၂၀၁၈ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဇူလိုင္လ - ဝမ္ပန္အခါ ရြာေလးသည္ ေသးငယ္သည့္ရြာေလးတစ္ရြာျဖစ္ျပီး  ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္အေရွ႔ပိုင္း က်ိဳင္းတံုျမိဳ႕မွ တစ္ဆင့္ စိမ္းလန္းသည့္လယ္ကြင္းမ်ားကို ျဖတ္ကာ မညီညာသည့္ လမ္းမမ်ားမွ တစ္နာရီခန္႔ ကားစီးလွ်င္ ေရာက္ႏိုင္ပါသည္။ ထိုရြာတြင္ မေအးေအးေအာင္သည္ အသက္ (၁)ႏွစ္အရြယ္ သားျဖစ္သူ ေကာင္းထိုက္စံ အပါအဝင္ မိသားစုႏွင့္အတူ ေနထိုင္လွ်က္ရိွသည္။ ၂၀၁၇ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ယူနီဆက္ပံ႔ပိုးမွဳျဖင့္ က်န္းမာေရးႏွင့္ အားကစားဝန္ၾကီးဌာနသည္ အာဟာရ၊  မိခင္၊ ေမြးကင္းစႏွင့္ ကေလးက်န္းမာေရးဆိုင္ရာ သင္တန္းမ်ား ပံ႔ပိုးေပးျခင္းအစီအစဥ္ကို ေစတနာ႔ဝန္ထမ္း က်န္းမာေရးလုပ္သားမ်ားအတြက္ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ အေရွ႕ပိုင္းတြင္ စတင္ခဲ႔သည္။ ယင္းသင္တန္းအခြင့္အလမ္းသည္ သူမရြာသုိ႔ ေရာက္လာသည့္အတြက္ မေအးေအးေအာင္တစ္ေယာက္ ပထမဆံုးေသာ ေစတနာ႔ဝန္ထမ္းတစ္ဦး ျဖစ္လာခဲ႔သည္။ “လြန္ခဲ႔ေသာ သံုးလခန္႔က အရန္သားဖြားဆရာမ သင္တန္းကို စာရင္းသြင္းခဲ႔ပါတယ္။ အခုေတာ႔ အဲဒီဗဟုသုတေတြကို ကၽြန္မ ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္မွာရိွတဲ႔ မိခင္ေတြအတြက္ကို ျပန္လည္ေဝမွ်ဖို႔ စိတ္အားထက္သန္မဳွ အျပည့္ရိွေနပါတယ္”ဟု မေအးေအးေအာင္မွ ေျပာသည္။ 

Improving the lives of children by providing access to health education

By Htet Htet Oo

In Shan State of Myanmar, health educators demonstrate simple but healthy child feeding methods 

Ma Aye Aye Aung serves as a passionate health worker for her community, takes charge in weighing children to monitor their growth in Wan Pan (Akhar) Village in Keng Tung, Eastern Shan.
©UNICEF Myanmar/2018/Nyan Zay Htet


KENG TUNG, July 2018 - Wan Pan Akhar is a small village, an hour of bumpy ride across the green paddy fields from Keng Tung town in eastern Shan State. Here is where Ma Aye Aye Aung lives with her family including her one-year-old boy, Kaung Htike San. In 2017, UNICEF started supporting the Ministry of Health and Sports to provide trainings on nutrition and MNCH practices for volunteer health workers in eastern Shan State. When the training opportunity came to her village, Ma Aye Aye Aung was one of the first to volunteer. “I enrolled to the auxiliary midwife training three months ago. Now, I have a strong passion to give back this knowledge to mothers like me in my community,” says Ma Aye Aye Aung.

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

အမွန္တကယ္ျဖစ္လာေသာ ကေလးဘဝအိပ္မက္တစ္ခု

မာရီရာနာပါလက္ဗရာ ေရးသားသည္

ဟားခါး၊ ခ်င္းျပည္နယ္၊ ဇြန္လ ၂၀၁၆ - ငြန္လိုင္ဇင္မွာ အဆုတ္ေရာင္ေရာဂါ ျဖစ္သည့္အတြက္ သားဖြား ဆရာမ တစ္ဦးက ကုသေပးစဥ္က ၎၏အသက္ ၄ႏွစ္သာ ရွိေသးသည္။ ယင္းျဖစ္ရပ္က ၎၏ဘဝကို ေျပာင္းလဲေစခဲ့သည္။ ယင္းအခ်ိန္္မွစ၍ တစ္ေန႔က်လွ်င္ သားဖြားဆရာမတစ္ဦး ျဖစ္ရမည္ဟု အိပ္မက္ မက္ခဲ့သည္။ “သားဖြားဆရာမေတြရဲ႕ ဝတ္စံုနဲ႔ လူေတြကို ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ရတဲ့ သူတုိ႔တာဝန္ကို အထင္ႀကီး အားက်မိခဲ့တာ” ဟု ယခု အသက္ ၃၄ ႏွစ္ ရွိၿပီျဖစ္သည့္ ငြန္လိုင္ဇင္က ေျပာသည္။

©UNICEF Myanmar/2016/Mariana Palavra
Ngun Hlei Zing stands in front of Lok Lung sub-rural health centre

A childhood dream come true

By Mariana Palavra

Hakka, Chin State, June 2016 - Ngun Hlei Zing was four years old when she got pneumonia and was treated by a midwife. This changed her life. From then on, she dreamt of one day becoming a midwife.  “I was impressed by the midwives uniforms and their mission to take care of others”, recalls Ngun Hlei Zing, now 34 years old. 

©UNICEF Myanmar/2016/Mariana Palavra
Ngun Hlei Zing stands in front of Lok Lung sub-rural health centre

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Mothers work together to fight child malnutrition in Rakhine IDP camps

By Ye Lwin
©UNICEF Myanmar/2015/Ye Lwin
 
Sittwe, Rakhine State, March 2014: Twenty three year-old Khin Saw looks at her two children proudly. They live in Thet Kay Pyin IDP camp in Sittwe, Rakhine State and, despite the difficult living conditions, both children are healthy and strong.