The Safe Delivery App supports skilled birth attendants to stay updated during COVID-19

In India, skilled birth attendants are using Maternity Foundation’s Safe Delivery App to prepare themselves and their labour wards to provide safer births for mothers and their newborns during the Covid-19 pandemic.

By Anna Frellsen, CEO of Maternity Foundation

Even prior to the covid-19 pandemic, health care workers in India, as in many settings, struggled to access the latest evidence-based medical guidelines. When our team at Maternity Foundation traveled across the country earlier this year, we heard this time and time again from staff nurses, doctors, and hospital administrators — for instance from staff nurse Barti Sinha at Chrama Community Health Center in Chhattisgarh state: “Before the Safe Delivery App, we used to all have different practices; we had studied different places and learned in different ways.”

The Safe Delivery App is a smartphone application developed by Maternity Foundation in partnership with Universities of Copenhagen and Southern Denmark. It uses simple, intuitive animated instruction videos, quizzes, descriptions of practical procedures and drug list to guide healthcare workers in the most common childbirth and neonatal emergencies. Since the Government of India in partnership with Maternity Foundation introduced the Safe Delivery App as a training and job aid to…