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Sunday 20 April 2014

Ondo Trains Traditional Birth Attendants

In a bid to enable traditional midwives acquire vocational skills with a view to reducing maternal mortality in the state, the Ondo State Government on Wednesday organised a training programme for traditional midwives.

According to the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Dayo Adeyanju, the skills acquisition programme would empower the participants drawn from Akure South Local Government Area of the state.

Adeyanju also said there was the need to partner with the midwives, especially in thereferral of patients to the state-owned Mother and Child Hospital.He said, this will enable pregnant women and nursing mothers access better health care services provided by government.

“We have created better job opportunity byempowering them and ensuring they have a job; this is why we are asking them to be referring their patients to state-own hospital.

“We are training them under a skills acquisition programme using Akure South Local Government as a pilot phase,” he said.

He said participants would benefit from micro credit facilities to enable them start their own businesses.

Also, participants were being trained on catering services, soap making, beads making as well as tie and dye.

Mrs Funmilola Oluwadare, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Maternal Death Reduction, also said the programme would curb illegal activities of traditional midwives.

Oluwadere, however, appealed to the midwives to abide by the rules given to them by the state government.

One of the participants, Mrs Omonilale Fasakin, commended the state governmentover the initiative, saying it had created an alternative means of earning a livelihood.

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