EDITORIAL: Midwives deserve better

>Tanzania yesterday joined other nations to mark International Day of Midwives, which was celebrated at national level in Musoma, Mara Region. Midwives play a key role not only in childbirth but also in ensuring both mother and baby survive the experience, given the high rate of child and maternal mortality in the country.

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

04 Oct

EDITORIAL: Teachers deserve more

>Tomorrow is Teachers’ Day and it will be celebrated at national level in Kagera Region. As we mark this day, we should reflect on the plight of our teachers countrywide. We may have ward secondary schools virtually countrywide, but what those schools produce at the end of the learning cycle is often devastating.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Aug

EDITORIAL: Mugabe’s right; liberation heroes deserve better

>If someone wants to justify mistreatment of a dog – so goes the moral of an old saying – the person starts off by giving the animal, which, paradoxically, is known as man’s best friend, a bad name. There are, in that saying, echoes of the shabby treatment that  Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe  is subjected to by the Western world.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

05 Jun

Midwives accused of negligence

Controversy gripped Temeke Hospital yesterday when a couple refused to take the body of their child who died immediately after it came to the world.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

05 Jul

Amref to train over 3,000 midwives

>Amref Tanzania is set to embark on a project to train over 3,000 midwives country wide from October this year in a bid to fight maternal and child mortality.

 

10 years ago

Daily News

24 Jul

Traditional midwives up for intensive training

Traditional midwives up for intensive training
Daily News
KIBOSHO School of Nursing (KSN) is set to offer training to traditional midwives aimed at remarkably lowering maternal deaths. That will be attained as the school has initiated a programme to offer midwifery training on its in-service and pre-service ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

05 May

Midwives key to reducing maternal deaths

As the world celebrates the International Day of the Midwife today, lack of skilled attendance at birth remains a major cause of maternal mortality because countries do not have adequate numbers of midwives to provide the needed care.

 

10 years ago

BBC

Board game to train African midwives

University researchers create a board game designed to help African midwives prevent women dying in childbirth.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

26 Feb

Minister re-ignites debate on male midwives

>The State minister for Higher Education, Mr John Chrysostom Muyingo, has reignited the debate on male midwives, asking nursing bodies to revisit their policies.

 

9 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: Birth simulator helps Zambia midwives

Nomsa Maseko reports from Zambia, where it is hoped a birth simulator being used to train midwives will translate into lives saved in childbirth.

 

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