Report of the Webinar on Use of digital health interventions for maintaining RMNCAH services during COVID-19 pandemic

Overview

Background

A webinar on ‘Use of digital health interventions for maintaining RMNNCAH services during the COVID-19 pandemic’ was organized by SEARO on April 28, 2022. The agenda for the webinar is in Annex 1. Approximately 117 participants joined online. The participants included programme managers responsible for reproductive, newborn, child and adolescent health from the Ministries of Health of Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor Leste, relevant staff from UN agencies at regional and country level, staff of WHO Country Offices, DHI and MCA units of WHO headquarters and Delivery and Data Analytics unit and UHC/ Family Health (FGL) of SEARO. Since the webinar was open to all interested, other interested participants also participated.

Objectives

The objectives of the webinar were:

General

To disseminate the findings of the assessment of digital health interventions (DHIs) used to deliver RMNCAH services during the COVID 19 pandemic in the three investment project countries (Bangladesh, Nepal and Timor-Leste).

Specific objectives

To share key findings, methodology and framework of landscape analysis on digital health interventions in the three investment project countries To plan for future RMNCAH related digital health assessments in the Member States