10 articles

Maternal & Child Health

Obstetrics, labour room, neonatal care, immunisation, and paediatric services.

Paediatric Prescribing Safety Controls in the Record

Children are dosed by weight, which makes the record a safety device rather than a filing system. Mandatory current weight, range checking, concentration clarity and documented verification — the system controls, not the dosing advice.

Dr. Ila Marathe

Jul 19, 2026 · 10 min read

Maternal & Child Health

Antenatal Care: Visit Recall, Packages and the Handover to Labour

An antenatal programme is a nine-month relationship managed in fifteen-minute encounters. Scheduling the visit series, chasing the women who stop attending, billing across a pregnancy, and handing a complete record to the labour room.

Yash Karnik

Jul 5, 2026 · 10 min read

Maternal & Child Health

Kangaroo Mother Care and Neonatal Step-Down Workflow

Step-down is where neonatal capacity is either created or wasted. Transfer criteria as documented decisions, recording KMC without turning it into paperwork, feeding and weight monitoring, and discharge readiness that holds up.

Dr. Ila Marathe

Jun 21, 2026 · 10 min read

Maternal & Child Health

Maternal and Perinatal Death Review in a Hospital

A death review that assigns blame teaches the organisation to stop reporting. Case identification, a review structure that holds under emotion, contributing-factor analysis, and turning findings into changes that actually get made.

Dr. Sunanda Belliappa

Jun 7, 2026 · 11 min read

Maternal & Child Health

Birth Registration and Statutory Reporting for Maternity Units

The records chain from delivery note to civil registration: who owes the birth report and by when, why data quality at capture decides everything, how corrections work, and the other statutory returns a maternity unit owes.

Yash Karnik

May 24, 2026 · 10 min read

Maternal & Child Health

Newborn and Childhood Immunisation Recall: A Setup Guide

Building an immunisation register and recall engine in a hospital: modelling the national schedule, generating due and overdue lists someone actually works, consent-compliant reminders, batch and cold-chain records, and coverage measurement.

Yash Karnik

May 10, 2026 · 11 min read

Maternal & Child Health

Mother and Baby Identification Controls in Maternity Units

Identity and matching controls from the delivery table to the gate pass: banding standards, verification at every handover and feed, transfers between units, expressed milk matching, and the incident reporting that catches near misses.

Dr. Ila Marathe

Apr 26, 2026 · 10 min read

Maternal & Child Health

Obstetric Triage and Maternal Early Warning Documentation

Designing an obstetric triage process and the records around maternal early-warning scoring: who assesses and in what order, how escalation pathways are documented, and how response intervals are measured honestly.

Dr. Sunanda Belliappa

Apr 12, 2026 · 10 min read

Maternal & Child Health

Partograph and Labour Room Documentation: A Digital Guide

Why paper partographs go incomplete, what a digital intrapartum record must capture, how to design timed entry that does not lag care, and how to audit partograph completeness rather than assert it.

Dr. Sunanda Belliappa

Mar 29, 2026 · 11 min read

Maternal & Child Health

Labour Room Quality Standards and Scoring: A Hospital Guide

How a private maternity unit can adopt the national labour-room quality framework as an internal standard: the areas of concern, honest self-assessment scoring, gap-closure planning, and the evidence file behind every checkpoint.

Dr. Sunanda Belliappa

Mar 15, 2026 · 11 min read