Safe Motherhood Program

Safe Motherhood Caravan

The Safe Motherhood caravan—dubbed as “Babae: Malusog. Ligtas. Handa.” — aims to educate women of reproductive age on Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health and Nutrition (MNCHN) services such as pre & post-natal consultations, facility-based delivery/SBA, exclusive breastfeeding, child health, family planning and saving for health. This program aims to contribute to the reduction of maternal mortality ratio to less than 90 per 100,000 live births (PDP2017-2022, from baseline of 114/100,000 in 2015).

PBSP is continuously working with the private sector in the conduct of Safe Motherhood Caravans across the country. The Safe Motherhood Caravans are consistently being carried out to reach more women of reproductive age (WRA) and help contribute to the improvement of the country’s status for MNCHN.

During the Caravans, WRAs are educated and made aware of the services available to them in order to improve their health-seeking behavior and increase actual utilization of the services related to MNCHN.

With the growing and expanding partnership with Intellicare, Mercury Drug Foundation, Lima Organization of Pollution Control Officers, Republic Cement, and SM Investments Corporation for fiscal year 2017 to 2018, PBSP was able to reach 9,506 WRAs who were provided training and information on safe motherhood and was able to influence 3,020 WRAs who actually utilized the available reproductive health services.