Web-Based Workload Maintain System for Midwives in Sri Lanka

Abstract

Abstract: Public health has always been an information-intensive field. Public Health Midwives (PHM) is the ‘front line’ health care provider responsible for the provision of maternal and child health and family planning services at the community level in Sri Lanka. Considered several recent researches and studies have revealed these midwives have faces undue burden due to maintain number of routine documents manually and without having proper system. those registers and records and in turn, the quality of their services has been badly affected. Therefore, introducing a web-based system for midwives through a simplified solution for easy documentation, data management in online will opportunity to involve in more field activities. Furthermore, it is useful in midwives to notify daily tasks, monitoring and evaluation of the field activities for themselves. Meantime it leads to notify to mothers about their clinics, vaccinations and activities by messages mothers from eligibility registration to whole pregnancy, prenatal, childbirth and postpartum period. By considered rural families provide this message service to any mobile phone with Sinhala, Tamil and English languages without facing difficulty. Moreover, the facility of storing information and access system with any devices when their visits without referring large documentation make the system more user friendly. In a subsequent of studies, all the midwives gave positive comments indicating that they were happy with the developing system and that they would like to continue using it to enhance their service. The system seems to be a practical solution for the daily activities of midwives in Sri Lanka.