“Developmentally Supportive Care and Family Participatory Care”
 

The Program has been organised by Dr(Prof.) Dipti Agarwal, HOD , Department of Pediatrics, DrRMLIMS and Dr Ashok Kr Gupta from KGMU. (Prof.)CM Singh , Director of Dr RMLIMS is the patron and Dr Pradyumn Singh, Dean of Dr RMLIMS is the co-patron for the Workshop. The Chief Guest of the Program was Shri Partha Sarthi Sen Sharma, Principal Secretary, Medical Education and Medical Health & Family Welfare, U.P. . Dr Pinki Jowel, Mission Director, NHM and Dr Ratan Pal Singh Suman, Director General Family Welfare, GoUP are the Guest of Honour.

This twoday ToT workshop is being conducted for paediatricians from medical Colleges and District Hospitals. The resource faculty are Dr. SN Singh, Dr Dipti Agarwal, Dr Shalini Tripathy and Dr Ashok Kumar Gupta.A Training package of FPC/DSC was released.Department of Paediatrics with support of Institute, in collaboration with UNICEF and the Directives of UP Govt. and National Health Mission has developed the module on “Family Participatory Care and Developmentally Supportive care”.

The training package comprises of Module, flip book and poster.The module will be used to train Doctors and Nurses. The Flip book will be used by Nurse/Counsellor for training parents/attendants.The module deals with various aspects of Family Participatory Care and Developmentally Supportive Care for sick and small newborns. The training is based on this module which will serve to strengthen quality of care for sick and small newborns and improve neonatal survival.

Family Participatory Care (FPC) empowers and supports family to take care of their sick newborn in nursery, from admission until discharge. Developmentally Supportive Care (DSC) promotes growth, and provides much needed stimulation to the developing brain of the newborn and are potentially beneficial for sick and preterm neonates. Evidence based developmentally supportive care, includes following core measures: Protected sleep; Pain and stress assessment and management; Developmentally supportive activities of daily living; Family participatory care and Creating a healing environment.

FPC has emerged as an important concept in improving the quality of new-born care and better survival rates. Sick and small babies discharged from newborn care units shows that after discharge up to 10% of babies do not survive till one year of life. While the baby is well cared during the stay in the hospital by the nurses and doctors, they have limited access to a trained service provider after discharge. The parents lack skills for essential care for their newborns/ infants after discharge at home. This module has been created to train doctors and nurses on developmentally supportive care of newborns and how parents/caregiver’s can be taught to take care of their newborns improving neonatal care and survival.