This is a WHO guide for ” maternal and newborn health experts as well as reproductive health experts coordinating and assisting with emergency care during the humanitarian crisis.”
The document emphasizes the need for clean birth practices and identifies these specifics for birthing kits for “self delivery”:
Reproductive Health Sub kit 2. Clean delivery
This kit is composed of 200 individual packets containing material and a pictorial instruction sheet for self delivery plus material for birth attendants. They are designed for 10,000 people for 3 months and are for use at the community level.
These packets have two parts
Part A: To be distributed to all women more than six months pregnant.
Part B: Equipment for birth attendants (for universal precautions)
Considering a birth rate of 4%, 100 deliveries will occur in 3 months for a population of 10,000
Number needed: 200 for a population of 10,000: 100 kits for those delivering in the initial 3 monthperiod, and another 100 kits for deliveries in the subsequent 3 month period.
Note: no oxytocin is available. If a skilled attendant is providing childbirth care, 400 ampoules of oxytocin, syringes, needles and antiseptic swabs should be added.
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