PESHAWAR, Feb 4: The World Health Organization has planned workshops on emergency maternal and child health and trauma skills to build the capacity of the health workers in three districts of the country.

"As the world health agency has announced healthy mothers and children as the theme for the World Health Day 2005, the slogan of which is 'make every mother and child count', reflects the reality that today the health of women and children is not a high enough priority for many governments and the international community," the WHO Emergency Medical Officer, Dr Saeed Akbar Khan, told Dawn.

In this connection, the first workshop would take place in Charsadda from April 12 to 13 which would be followed by workshop at Swat from April 26 to 30 and Bahawalpur from May 3 to 7, he said.

Emergency maternal, child health and trauma skills course is a project which has been developed by WHO Pakistan, Child Advocacy International (CAI) and Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG), UK, he said.