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Skills Training to Keep Mothers and Babies Safe

strong>Skills Training to Keep Mothers and Babies Safe in Pregnancy and Childbirth

Auckland New Zealand


Thirty-five doctors and midwives from eleven Pacific Island countries are arriving in Auckland this weekend for five days to undergo training in how to train other health workers in their countries to keep mothers and babies safe in pregnancy and childbirth.

Since the launch of the Pacific Emergency Maternal and Neonatal Training Manual in Fiji last year, the Pacific Society for Reproductive Health (PSRH) Charitable Trust is taking a step further by running the train-the-trainers workshop in Auckland, 31 July – 4th August.

Dr Alec Ekeroma, an obstetrician at Middlemore Hospital with the University of Auckland, has led the development of the programme from its inception. “The aim is to embed the skills training programme, away from ad-hoc workshops and into continuous professional development activities such as in-service education by trained clinical champions from each Island country,” Dr Ekeroma said.

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) supported the initiative by leading the development of an accompanying Instructors Guide. The President of RANZCOG, Prof Michael Permezel congratulated PSRH on its achievement in bringing the life-saving program to life and its ongoing aim and endeavour to make the workshops relevant, affordable and accessible to doctors, midwives and nurses who care for mothers and their newborn babies across the Pacific. “The aim of the PEMNeT is to make pregnancy and childbirth safer in the Pacific,” said Prof Permezel.

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The President of PSRH, midwife Kathleen Gapirongo of the Solomon Islands, is a lead speaker at the Pacific Sustainable Development Goals conference that follows the training workshop. Said midwife Gapirongo: “Emergencies happen, and when all birth attendants are well-trained, then emergencies occur less often, and lives are saved when they do occur.”

PSRH is grateful for the funding assistance from the New Zealand Aid Programme, Counties Manukau Health and Ministries of Health of Pacific countries.

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