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TSMU Associate Professor Khatuna Lomauri is the World Health Organization Neonatology Expert

The Global initiatives like UN Sustainable Development Goals, the World Health Organization (WHO) Strategy for Wom¬en’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health 2016–2030 and Every Newborn Action Plan aim to reduce the incidents of preventable stillbirths and neonatal mortality. The goal is supposed to be achieved through perinatal audit.

In various countries neonatal and perinatal field experts are involved in special committees to implement perinatal audit as a tool to improve a perinatal health care. In 2016 the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia, Dr. Nino Berdzuli reorganized the perinatal system of Georgia. Due to the audit the process was systematized and drawbacks were eliminated.

In 2018 the TSMU Department of Pediatrics N1 Associate Professor Khatuna Lomauri applied for WHO permission to act as the field expert. The application was approved and the TSMU Associate Professor was given opportunity to act as a WHO expert. In 2018 the World Health Organization conducted a workshop in Liverpool for the perinatal experts and Assoc. Prof. Khatuna Lomauri was a participant.

In 2019, with the support of the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the United Nations Children’s Fund (‎UNICEF) the Ministry of Health of North Macedonia and the local non-governmental organizations, established the Perinatal Mortality Review Committee. The aim of the committee was to assign a cause of perinatal mortality in the country. TSMU Assoc. Prof. Khatuna Lomauri, Expert, Dr. Nathalie Roos, (Karolinska Institute, Sweden) and the Head of the Review Committee, Associate Professor Gligor Tofoski (North Macedonia), worked together in a preliminarily prepared database with more than 50 variables to understand the reasons of all stillbirths and neonatal deaths in the country. Dr. Nino Berdzuli, Director of the Country Health Programmes, WHO Regional Office for Europe, was the leader and coordinator of the process. The committee discussed 209 cases of perinatal deaths which were recorded in North Macedonia in 2019. The team of TSMU Assoc. Prof. Khatuna Lomauri analyzed 34 cases of perinatal deaths. According to the statistical analysis at the Karolinska Institute, the final report and recommendations were published in 2020. The document was appraised, edited and approved by the WHO Regional Office for Europe. In January 2021 the report was officially posted on the World Health Organization website  https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/338875

TSMU congratulates Associate Professor Khatuna Lomauri with the well-deserved recognition and wishes future success in her career!