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Training midwives and TBAs in Uganda

Jill Moloney writes about midwifery training in Uganda:

The students are about to take their final exams and hopefully they’ll be able to bring some positive changes to the maternity ward. I met with the “Matron”of the hospital today and have started to line up further training for the staff already working on the ward (again it will entail supporting the normal physiology of labour). The District Department of Health is also co-operating in releasing midwives from the health units for the same training, which will then (hopefully, all going to plan)lead into the next phase of creating “mother-friendly”birthing environments.

Then I’m hoping to introduce Kangaroo Mother Care” - the tutors of the midwifery school seem to be up for it so I hope the hospital and health unit staff are, too, and particularly the funding bodies.

Here are some more images from Uganda:

This Elder wanted to take “Africane”home with her. Some other community members came to see the doll and also posed for the photo.

Another TBA holding “Africane”taken in front of our office -the huts behind were constructed by the people internally displaced by war.

This photo shows some birth attendants practising abdominal palpation - the man is obviously playing the role of the pregnant woman and it caused much laughter in the group. The fetal doll is under the “skirt” and so can’t be seen.

Posted by andrea at March 11, 2007 02:02 PM