Abstract:

Background: Antenatal care is dichotomous variable had one or more visit with a trained individual during the pregnancy and mean only that care which is routinely provided for all pregnant women at primary care level or every aspect of care from screening to intensive life support, and is provided up to delivery. example of those service include Health education and counselling on pregnancy danger signs, Drugs administration like hematinic, antimalarial, anthelminiths and vaccination of tetanus. This services should be provided regularly in every visit

Methodology: The study was conducted to postnatal at Mawenzi regional hospital centered cross section study design on 216 sample where systematic sampling was used. Data was collected through interviewers administered questionnaire and assessment of antenatal card. Data analysis was done using IBM SPSS version 20.

Results: A total of 216 postnatal women were interviewed aged 18-40 years where 55.1 were aged 18-25 years and only 6% were aged above 35 years 49.4% are married living with their husbands and 64.8% are housewife while only 12% were officially employed. 6% had one visit while at 60% had at least three visits to ANC. 40% of women attending ANC had their blood pressure checked at least one while 60% was not checked at all, 99% was tested for HIV while 1% was not tested, 74% was tested while 26% was not tested for malaria, 60% has VDL TEST done while 39% was not done. 76% were not given folic throughout their visit while only 24% had at least given ones, 13.4% not given SP at all while 86% had at least given ones, 50% were not given Iron Sulphate at all, and 32% were not given mebendazole at all.

Conclusion: It showed that a significant high number of visit and adequate quality of services during antenatal care is associated with good outcome post-delivery. Also it showed that a number of visits to women from villages is still low and the utilization of the care is still poor.