„Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures” is the motto of this year’s World Health Day. On 7 April, WHO launches a year-long campaign focusing on improving maternal and newborn health in 2025.
Physical and emotional support
The World Health Organization is calling on governments to ensure the long-term health and well-being of women and to do all they can to prevent maternal and newborn deaths on this year’s World Health Day, which is marked on 7th April. It is estimated that nearly 300,000 women worldwide lose their lives every year due to pregnancy or childbirth, more than 2 million babies die in their first month of life and another 2 million are stillborn. According to the World Health Organization, families need high-quality care that can support them not only physically but also emotionally before, during and after childbirth.
Challenges for mothers and newborns
The WHO was established on 7 April 1948 and celebrates World Health Day every year. Hungary has been a member of WHO since the beginning and since 2016 they have a Global Service Centre in Budapest. Each year, the WHO focuses its campaign on a theme of public health importance, this year’s theme being “Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures”. They aim to improve health systems to properly address the challenges faced by mothers and newborns. These include not only direct obstetric complications, but also mental health conditions, non-communicable diseases and family planning. They highlighted that women and families must be supported by laws that protect their health and rights, and that it is important that they have the basic information they need about pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period.
HR-Pharma in Szeged: Women in the spotlight
The laboratory service provider’s packages focus on tests that support women’s health and specifically monitor and support them in preparation for pregnancy and at different stages of pregnancy. HR-Pharma’s diagnostic packages not only help women prepare for family planning, but also provide useful information about the current state of their bodies later stage in life.