Direct Relief's interventions include expanding access to safe deliveries by training and
equipping traditional birth attendants and midwives, addressing complications in birth with emergency obstetric care, and enrolling mothers into the Prevention of Maternal - to - Child Transmission of HIV program.
Ensure that the practices recommended in the «Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding» as elaborated in the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) are implemented throughout the health care system and
by traditional birth attendants.
Speaking at the commissioning of one of the facilities in Aningeje, Akamkpa Local Government Area, wife of the governor, Dr Linda Ayade, who was represented by a director in her office, Rose Eneji, admonished women to make judicious use of the facility and refrain from patronizing
unskilled Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs).
Sure, call yourself doula or
traditional birth attendant.
In attendants were health care providers; Doctors, nurses, midwives, pharmacist,
Traditional birth attendants, gentlemen of the press etc..
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Traditional Birth Attendants are part of the birthing process all over the world.
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on Thursday presented certificates of participation in orientation course to 400
Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) in the State, just as he expressed optimism that they would contribute to the State Government's effort to reduce maternal mortality rate.
Speaking at the certificate presentation ceremony of the TBAs held at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, Alausa Secretariat, Governor Ambode said that one of the cardinal points of his administration was to make
traditional birth attendants a relevant factor in child care delivery, hence the urgent need to improve the skill of the traditional health attendants to reduce maternal mortality.