GROBOGAN – Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Maternal and infant mortality rates serve as key indicators of healthcare development success and are a global commitment to be reduced. Data sources from healthcare facilities play a crucial role in identifying factors contributing to mortality cases, enabling timely and appropriate responses and recommendations. To support this effort, the Ministry of Health has introduced the Maternal Perinatal Death Notification (MPDN) application. MPDN is specifically designed to facilitate the rapid and comprehensive reporting of maternal and perinatal deaths in Indonesia by leveraging information technology.
The Ministry of Health has conducted socialization and training on the use of the MPDN application; however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the training was held online. This situation is believed to be one of the challenges for healthcare personnel in Community Health Centers (Puskesmas) and hospitals responsible for reporting death cases, as they have not been able to fully optimize data reporting through the MPDN application. Therefore, on-site assistance is needed for personnel in charge of death reporting, as many mortality data entries have not yet been recorded in the system.
With support from UNICEF and the Institute for Research and Community Service (LPPM) at Diponegoro University, Dr. Cahya Tri Purnami, SKM, MKes, a lecturer at the Public Health Master’s Program, Diponegoro University, assisted in the use of the MPDN application for personnel responsible for mortality data in hospitals and Puskesmas in Grobogan Regency. The assistance session was attended by 47 participants, consisting of 30 representatives from Puskesmas, 14 representatives from hospitals, and 3 representatives from the Grobogan District Health Office. The event took place on December 7, 2022, at Kyriad Grand Master Hotel, Purwodadi, Grobogan.
The main objective of this assistance was to ensure that participants could complete and input mortality data accurately according to the mortality data form, cross-check data between Puskesmas and hospitals, and discuss any difficulties encountered while entering data into the MPDN application. As a result, mortality data was successfully and promptly recorded in the MPDN application, enabling real-time monitoring through the application’s dashboard.