The Challenge
The recommendations for what constitute safe and effective care for most pregnant women are actually clearly defined by many international organizations, including the World Health Organization and numerous Professional Colleges of Obstetricians and of Midwives around the world. The major challenges are in the translation and implementation of this knowledge. How does an institution with entrenched culture, hierarchies, momentum, change its ways? Why is it so difficult to adopt and effectively implement what is consensus in the global medical community? Lastly, at the ground-level, how do we ensure that caregivers actually deliver and practice consistently within the evidence-based guidelines? Akna answers these challenges with case-by-case expertise, custom-designed strategy, and commitment to monitor for follow-through.
It is problematic to focus solely on survival rates of mother and infant. While this is obviously important, these metrics are not sufficient to prevent harmful birth practices that disempower and traumatize mothers with the potential to trigger a cascade of severe medical complications, or create access barriers between women and the care they need.
Mother-centred care and evidence-based care not only preserves the dignity of the women, but also the one of the practitioners.
- Mélanie V. Chevarie, Co-founder & Director Akna
Our method is to help institutions ensure that health professionals’ practices follow evidence-based standards, thereby increasing safety and dignity of not only the mothers, but also your practitioners.
Akna assist in the following ways:
By providing and conducting advanced continuous education courses for practitioners.
By creating protocols and guidelines that are evidence-based and women-centred.
By providing clinical support.
By conducting research, data collection, analysis of those data and feedback to the institution.