ALSO (Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics) in Malawi
ALSO (Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics) has been running practical 2 day courses to enhance hands on emergency skills for maternity care providers since the early 1990s.
ALSO organisations currently exist in more than 60 countries.
ALSO UK is a registered charity and has been providing courses in the UK and abroad since 1996.
]ALSO instructors from Scotland travelled to Malawi on numerous occasions over a four year period to run courses in Lilongwe, Blantyre, Mazuzu and Mangochi. Several hundred health care providers were trained including doctors, clinical officers, midwives and health care assistants. 41 Malawian instructors were trained and large banks of training equipment, purchased through the fund raising efforts of the Scottish group of ALSO instructors, were left in the North, South and Central regions of the country, for use by the Malawian instructors.
Our photograph shows the monthly statistics in one of the maternity units we visited.
With the population of Malawi having increased from 10.4 million to 16.3 million between 2000 and 2012, and with a fertility rate of 5.5 there is still much work to be done in all areas of female healthcare. We hope that the equipment provided and the skills acquired will continue to contribute to improved maternal outcomes in Malawi.
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Photos and stories submitted to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
For enquiries about these photos or for more details about RCOG please go to www.rcog.org.uk
ALSO (Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics) in Malawi
ALSO (Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics) has been running practical 2 day courses to enhance hands on emergency skills for maternity care providers since the early 1990s.
ALSO organisations currently exist in more than 60 countries.
ALSO UK is a registered charity and has been providing courses in the UK and abroad since 1996.
]ALSO instructors from Scotland travelled to Malawi on numerous occasions over a four year period to run courses in Lilongwe, Blantyre, Mazuzu and Mangochi. Several hundred health care providers were trained including doctors, clinical officers, midwives and health care assistants. 41 Malawian instructors were trained and large banks of training equipment, purchased through the fund raising efforts of the Scottish group of ALSO instructors, were left in the North, South and Central regions of the country, for use by the Malawian instructors.
Our photograph shows the monthly statistics in one of the maternity units we visited.
With the population of Malawi having increased from 10.4 million to 16.3 million between 2000 and 2012, and with a fertility rate of 5.5 there is still much work to be done in all areas of female healthcare. We hope that the equipment provided and the skills acquired will continue to contribute to improved maternal outcomes in Malawi.
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Photos and stories submitted to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
For enquiries about these photos or for more details about RCOG please go to www.rcog.org.uk