A prospective, quasi-experimental study was carried out in 2009 at urban health centres
of five townships of Mandalay, Myanmar, to improve the skill of midwives in diagnosis and
referral of pre-eclampsia from urban health centres to the Central Women’s Hospital and to enhance
the supervision of midwives by lady health visitors . The intervention was training on quality
antenatal care focusing on PE using an updated training manual. Altogether, 75 health care providers participated. In this study, data were extracted from patient registers and monthly