Antenatal Services

Prenatal care also known as antenatal care, is a type of preventive healthcare. It is provided in the form of medical check-ups, consisting of recommendations on managing a healthy lifestyle and the provision of medical information such as maternal physiological changes in pregnancy, biological changes, and prenatal nutrition including prenatal vitamins, which prevents potential health problems throughout the course of the pregnancy and promotes the mother and child’s health alike. The availability of routine prenatal care, including prenatal screening and diagnosis, has played a part in reducing the frequency of maternal death, miscarriages, birth defects, low birth weight, neonatal infections and other preventable health problems.

Antenatal care (ANC) is an umbrella term used to describe medical care and procedures that are carried out to and for the pregnant women. It is the health care that is rendered to the pregnant women throughout pregnancy until the child’s birth.