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Yemen urgently needs midwives, says UN official
Yemen urgently needs thousands of midwives to allow the country to achieve universal access to skilled care at birth and to achieve the Millennium Development Goal, a UN official said.
- Gulf News Report
- Published: 00:21 May 20, 2008
Dubai: Yemen urgently needs thousands of midwives to allow the country to achieve universal access to skilled care at birth and to achieve the Millennium Development Goal, a UN official said.
Salwa Al Eryani, assistant representative for reproductive health at the United Nations Population Fund [UNFPA], said that UNFPA had discussed how to train additional midwives with the Ministry of Health.
"We are working on a proposal to see how to train these midwives, and in which areas they are needed immediately.
"We are drafting such a proposal and how to go about training 5,000 midwives," she said.
"[In Yemen] 20 per cent of deliveries are attended by skilled midwives. Studies outside Yemen show that when there is an increase in skilled birth attendants there is a decrease in maternal mortality," Al Eryani added.
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