Survival, thriving and transforming chances of newborns, and children as an urgent global challenge.

Posted on Jul 20, 2023

Child Health Care ranges from 0 -20yrs of age and above 20 those are adults however he noted that there are those who are above 20yrs with special needs like delayed growth who are also included

Child health care can be sought from hospitals pharmacies clinics and traditional healers ~ Mutesasira John Kennedy ~ Medical Officer in paediatric department in Mengo hospital on survival, thriving and transforming chances of newborns as an urgent global challenge

   
Mothers should be ready to conceive by preparing their bodies and eating right foods glucose iron proteins folic acid coz the baby will take all that you have
0 -2 month are the new born 3 month - 1 year are the babies 2yrs - 4ys are called under 5 and 5yrs - 10yrs are school going children and 10yrs - 19yrs are adolescents while 20yrs - 24yrs are young persons
Parenting starts as early as before conceiving to pregnancy up to delivery
In Pregnancy, he called upon male parents to be supportive of their wives and create for them a conducive environment
Mothers during pregnancy should have enough sleep eat nutritiously prevent and treat malaria go for attenental to mention but a few so that children are fully developed and are born with the right kilos
1yr -7yrs is observation time the child takes in whatever you do be keen
7yrs -10yrs is a very delicate age where they ask a lot of questions endeavour to answer all of them Here you should not leave an attention deficit otherwise they will get answers from somewhere else i.e from the TV from friends or even from the Internet Please bond with them and be available
10yrs - 20yrs is the most difficult age where communication is key, it's called an adolescents stage which is unique and with unique problems ranging from bad smell from the hormonst menstruation intimacy wet dreams etc they need a lot of attention and support but they can also reject the support but insist