It was also investing more money in educating young women in the profession and deploying midwives all across the country, he added.
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Also on display will be information about volunteer work carried out overseas by some of the trust’s midwives, student midwives and The Royal College of Midwives secretary Alison Murray.
Western NSW Local Health District director of nursing and midwifery Adrian Fahy congratulates Orange midwife Elide Newton who was named as the health district’s Midwife of the Year.
“Significant investments in midwifery are essential if the world is to achieve its ambitious goals of reducing maternal and newborn deaths”, Osotimehin said.
A full two thirds of all maternal deaths worldwide could be prevented if only a midwife had been present and midwives are heroes to women, adolescents and newborns especially in hard to reach communities and in humanitarian crises. This means that about 6 women die each day as a result of pregnancy-related complications.
“Currently NZNO is working with the Safe Staffing Healthy Workplaces Unit, midwife leaders and other midwifery groups to ensure midwives have the capacity to meet the needs of women and their babies”.
The association wants “automatic absorption” of new graduates from midwifery schools as well as training for community midwives.
STAFF at the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary are celebrating International Day of the Midwife today, Thursday.
According to the agency, increasing the number of midwives and spreading their presence in any country, is an indication of the caring of the country to its wives, its daughters, and its children.
UNFPA has pledged continued support for midwifery schools to help train some 15,000 midwives around the world.
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The Swedish Ministry for Foreign affairs in cooperation with the International Confederation of Midwives and the Bangladesh Directorate of Nursing Services nominated Jesmin Akhter of Bangladesh for the “Midwives4all Award 2016”. The “Midwives4all” award is part a global awareness campaign which seeks to increase the number of midwives to ensure that no child in the future is born with the assistance or support of a midwife.
