Dr. Brenda Sequeira Dmello

Urban health specialist with 15+ years of experience in strengthening health systems to provide safe & respectful rights-based healthcare for vulnerable women.

[Dr. Brenda Sequeira Dmello @brenda_dmello]

Read more about the Dar es Salaam urban initiative here: https://t.co/BLwfAdZe4X

#Tanzania #Dar #Daressalaam

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What's your thoughts on this?
Share with me your ideas on what can be done to keep teenage girls in schools safe from #earlypregnancies.

#PARTOMa #CCBRT #Tanzania #maternalhealth

[Dr. Brenda Sequeira Dmello @brenda_dmello]

Yesterday was World Food Safety Day.
Here is my take.

Expecting mothers need safe food.
It is important to ensure that the food is prepared with hygiene and if raw vegetables are involved, they need to be thoroughly cleaned.

Happy food safety day.

#worldfoodsafetyday

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I love midwives❤️
They bring life and joy to our birthing rooms.
And CCBRT has some of the best midwives in the world.

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The marginalised groups include teenage #pregnant #girls and #pregnant #women with disability.

It is an added infrastructure to address congestion in urban maternity wards.

[Dr. Brenda Sequeira Dmello @brenda_dmello]

The CCBRT maternity wing is designed to provide safe respectful maternity care and strengthen the Dar es Salaam health system by delivering fully subsidized high-quality care for marginalised groups.
https://t.co/Ku0B0F3zQe

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Do you want to read more about this? Use the link provided: https://t.co/BLwfAdZe4X

#CCBRT #PartoMa #globalhealth #maternalcare

[Dr. Brenda Sequeira Dmello @brenda_dmello]

I had an amazing time connecting with Sia Malekia, a Research Scientist from NIMR.

Thank you for the comprehensive training on ethics in medical research for the @CCBRTTanzania research committee.

As the committee lead, I look forward to seeing its implementation in our unit.

[Dr. Brenda Sequeira Dmello @brenda_dmello]

Dr.Timothy (CCBRT's Clinical Trainer) and I are honoured to represent our facility on this impactful venture.

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If you want to go far, go together...
@CCBRTTanzania joins hands with HealthFocus, Evaplan, GIZ and #TANGA regional and Council leadership at Korogwe at a workshop to validate phase II of a Project to improve maternal and newborn #health care in Tanga.

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Read more about the Dar es Salaam urban initiative here: https://t.co/BLwfAdZe4X

#Tanzania #Dar #Daressalaam

[Dr. Brenda Sequeira Dmello @brenda_dmello]

Thank you @lenkabenova for visiting us @CCBRTTanzania hoping to connect soon.

[Dr. Brenda Sequeira Dmello @brenda_dmello]

Mildly elevated blood pressure on admission was a significant predictor of pre-facility #stillbirths.
Enhancing antenatal #care providers' hypertension management skills can mitigate preventable perinatal deaths.

Check out my recent research found here (https://t.co/eXnseWq2EW)

[Dr. Brenda Sequeira Dmello @brenda_dmello]

Congratulations USAID MOMENTUM on this beautiful graphic that comprehensively captures the complexity of the crucial components that leaders need to address concurrently to provide Rights-based safe care for girls and women across their life course.

[Dr. Brenda Sequeira Dmello @brenda_dmello]

Haika Osaki's insightful paper elaborates that maternal deaths are often not caused by a single delay but an accumulation of delays at multiple levels. I reiterate the call for less blame and more focus on health system wide context specific solutions.
https://t.co/qv3iR85u0B

[Dr. Brenda Sequeira Dmello @brenda_dmello]

My latest research on #Maternal and #newborn Health care has just been published with @SpringerNature in BMC pregnancy and Childbirth journal.

Read here: https://t.co/9HAz06ZIhW and do not forget to share your thoughts.
#PartoMa #CCBRT

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📝 Clinical practice guidelines provide outdated, inconsistent, and unclear definitions of prolonged labour, leading to unnecessary harm during birth, say @NannaMaaloe @MonicaKujabi @Thomas_vd_Akker @Brenda_dmello @DFC_Fellowship

#PartoMa #safebirths
https://t.co/abl9rlr6Ft

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The research done in collaboration with colleagues from 5 of Dar es Salaam's busiest maternity units, researchers from the Aga Khan Medical College, the Netherlands, and the University of Copenhagen, aims to contribute to the understanding of the context and developing solutions.

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The high rate of #stillbirths and neonatal deaths in Dar es Salaam revealed in the last two national surveys is baffling, considering that almost all women give birth in a health facility and attend antenatal clinic.
Find My latest research (here: https://t.co/eXnseWpuPo).