Kalsoom Zaidi, Gohar Wajid, N Rehan.
Utilization Pattern of Different Health Facilities for MCH Services in the three areas of District Lahore.
Mother & Child Jan ;34(1):11-4.

A community based study was conducted in two rural and one urban areas of Lahore district. The objective was to assess the utilization of different health facilities for selected MCH services. All the ladies who had delivered a baby in the past one year were asked about the place of delivery, the development of any post delivery complications and the utilization of health facilities for the treatment of post delivery complications. Upto 97.5%, 80% and 63.4% of deliveries were conducted by `Dais` (Traditional Birth Attendants) in the two rural and one urban areas respectively. As many as 16%, 24% and 30% of the mothers developed post delivery complications in the two rural and one urban areas respectively. In one rural area, 45.9% of complication were treated by `Dais`, while in the second rural area 42.0% of cases got treatment from a medical store. In the city area however, 78% of complications were treated by either a private doctor or at a GHF. There is a need to provide optimum level of all types of health care services, that is, lady doctors and other staff, essential medicines and proper labour room facilities. People need to be educated and motivated for the use of these facilities. Traditional Birth Attendants`and `Village Health Workers` programmes are expected to provide some break-through in the above mentioned patterns of child delivery

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