UNFPA Donates Teaching Equipments To Kajokeji Health Institute The United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA donated midwifery teaching materials worth 10,000 US Dollars to the National Health Training Institute in Kajokeji town, south of Juba on Wednesday. 29 July 2011 UNFPA Donates Teaching Equipments To Kajokeji Health Institute Midwifery students & staffs pose for a photo at the Institute premises [©Gurtong]
By Waakhe Simon Wudu KAJOKEJI, 29th July, 2011 [Gurtong] – The United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA donated midwifery teaching materials worth 10,000 US Dollars to the National Health Training Institute in Kajokeji town, south of Juba on Wednesday. In a ceremony held at the, Mundari Hospital Institute, UNFPA handed over education equipments such as, text books and mannequins to boost training of students in the Institute in which students say has been a challenge. A number of 31 students, 18 of which are female, who are pursuing a certificate course in Midwifery, will be graduating by the end of this year. They have often raised complaints over inadequate facilities as a major challenge. The students, now second group of midwives after 18 others graduated in 2009, will help to address the challenges in maternal mortality health in the Republic of South Sudan. As an effort to deal with reduction of maternal mortality rate, UNFPA in coordination with other partners and the government’s Ministry of Health have reiterated to continue capacity building health institutions across the Republic. Kondwani Mwangulube, who represented the UNFPA South Sudan’s Country Director, stressed during the function that the Organization’s goal was to minimize maternal mortality rate in the Republic of South Sudan. Other partners like the Italian Cooperation, International Medical Corps, IMC in partnership with the Ministry of Health have also expressed continued efforts to upgrade the midwifery capacity in a similar move in order to get rid of maternal mortality rate in the country. Meanwhile students have demanded to be upgraded to high level of Midwifery education they mentioned as; Diploma, Degree, Masters but not only to end as midwives with certificate only. Janet Michael, Director for Nursing and Midwifery at the South Sudan Ministry of Health said that, “placing midwifery at low level (one and half year certificate course) means low salaries and poor service,” Janet said, stressing that, “We hope that, we will upgrade you to diploma level.” Posted in: Home, Foreign Aid/Assistance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
