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What Other Countries Are Doing?
So when I look through at what other countries are doing and what they have done for the
antenatal mother. It is recommended by WHO to have this antenatal contact for eight times
throughout the pregnancy ie. at 12 week, 20-week, 26-week and so forth. However, what they
have done is an alternate modality of the antenatal contact where they have four face-to-face and
four remote contact. With this remote contact, they also have a risk assessment tool ready to ask
the patients and this can also be incorporated into our service.
But of course, we will not stop at what we have done. We will also still improve in whatever
we have done now. Maybe we can also adapt to whatever other countries are doing.