Today our second 2-day course began. UNICEF is sponsoring a
2-day child health course that is being held in the same facility here in
Dapaong. The 50 midwives we taught Tuesday and Wednesday today started the
UNICEF child health course. The 50 midwives who took the UNICEF course first
joined us today for the Helping Babies Breathe neonatal resuscitation course.
These 100 midwives come from 100 different hospitals and health centers around
four regions of northern Togo. We learned that 70 of the 100 midwives have
never resuscitated a baby. Thirty have had some previous experience with
resuscitation. Last year, the 2012 LDS Humanitarian Services team trained 96
midwives and doctors. After 6 months, those 96 providers had trained almost
2000 of their colleagues, primarily in southern Togo. We are hopeful that each
of the midwives we have taught will train 6-10 of their colleagues. Overall, LDS Humanitarian Services
volunteers completed neonatal resuscitation projects in 48 countries in 2012
and about 40 countries in 2013. Donations to help support this program can be
made at www.ldshumanitarianservices.org.
