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It is a unique building from an architectural point of view, located in an emblematic place in the capital, Trapería Street. .The building is a mixture of different artistic currents that coexisted in the second half of the 19th and early 20th century in Spain and was declared a national historical-artistic monument in 1983.
Through the entrance door and a small neo-Baroque lobby, you access the Arabiam Courtyard, whose spectacular neonazari style decoration required more than 20,000 sheets of gold leaf.
The Ballroom is perhaps the best known and most splendid witness if the social life of Murcia for more than a century. It's neo-Baroque in style. The valuable paintings that embellish it - four midwives in the clouds - represent Music, Sculpture, Painting and Architecture.
Free Flight above the Stork Fountain ...
"The Stork Fountain" sculpture (1894)
by Vilhelm Bissen (1836-1913) - Best large for details.
However,in this corner of the world,the sculptor gave shape to the bright side of life and its blessings.The bronze Storks around the Fountain are about to set off and maintain control of their lives; the aquatic plants drink fresh water from the little cascades and life is so peaceful in Amager Square.
Newly-graduated Midwives,who want to keep an old tradition alive,come and dance around the Fountain.They want to help the Storks bring new life into the world ...
♥ Many thanks for all your visits & pink ☆s ♥
Black Garden Ants (Lasius Niger) attend the birth of a new aphid within their flock.
The newborn is a clone of the mother aphid, who will reproduce in this way (parthenogenesis) to rapidly build up the size of the colony and take advantage of the bountiful supply of food during the spring and summer months.
It will begin feeding on the host plant and supply honeydew to the ants who offer shelter and protection from predators in return.
Youth Coordinator at Mexfam. Find out more about her at www.americansforunfpalifelines.org/Gui/Compare.aspx?Which....
"God calls us to be midwives of companionship and mercy for one another; midwives of resilience and radical hospitality; midwives of a primordial innocence that discerns and seizes up the "the flowering of oridiary possibilities" hidden in everyday life, in order to harvest "fruits of hope that have never been seen before."
-Christopher Pramuk, Rediscovering Child Mind, We are Already One-Thomas Merton's Message of Hope, pg. 261
Sages-femmes : Code Rouge
Les Sages-Femmes françaises se battent pour une reconnaissance de leurs compétences, pour leur appartenance à part entière au statut médical, pour une revalorisation de leurs salaires à la hauteur de leurs responsabilités. Ne lâchez rien !
Motherwort, Leonurus cardiaca (Lamiaceae) is a herbaceous perennial plant. Originally from Central Asia and southeastern Europe, it is now found worldwide, spread largely due to its use as a herbal remedy. Midwives use it for a variety of purposes, including uterine tonic and prevention of uterine infection in women, hence the name Motherwort. The herb contains the alkaloid leonurine, which is a mild vasodilator and has a relaxing effect on smooth muscles. For this reason, it has long been used as a cardiac tonic, nervine, and an emmenagogue. (Wikipedia)
Bedeciu, Cluj County, Romania
IZQ: 40 Aniversario Protección Civil Española (2021)
Serie: Efemérides
LEFT: 40th Anniversary Spanish Civil Protection (2021)
DERECHA: 2020 Año Internacional de las Enfermeras y Matronas. Elvira López Mourín, Primera Enfermera de la aviación sanitaria española 1922.
RIGHT: 2020 International Year of Nurses and Midwives.
Elvira López Mourín, First Nurse of the Spanish medical aviation 1922
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Sent to Chen of New York
Postcrossing / ES-718334
September 2022
ECR INVICTA is a project in which we are creating a unique place that aligns with contemporary trends and a holistic approach to health. In this multifunctional, open complex, scientific research and development projects will be carried out, and the latest diagnostic and therapeutic methods will be developed.
The complex includes medical laboratories, obstetrics and gynaecology clinics, a one-day diagnostics centre with a pharmacy, a rehabilitation centre for people with mobility problems as well as a training centre for doctors, midwives and nurses.
It assumes close integration of the diagnostic, medical and surgical part as well as the regenerative and psychological part together with the research and development area.
The buildings forming the open complex were designed by FAAB Architecture, the inspiration for the creators was the wonderful geometry and energy of sea waves and a series of photographs by the French artist Pierre Carreu - "Aqua Viva".
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NEWS NOW
Dateline: July 22, 2029
”Good evening, this is Rab Constantinoff. Here is the day’s news… earlier, it was announced by the doctors at the John Hopkins University Dept. of Medical Studies and Innovation, that the first pre-masked baby was born. The much highly anticipated event was broadcast on a ZOOM PLUS 12 call, with physicians, attendants and various remote midwives issuing instructions from their living-rooms. The lone doctor in the birthing room, wrapped entirely from head to foot in the new Microantikevlarcellophane Body Wrap, the attached air canister equipped with only the finest, cleanest air supply available anywhere, held the baby aloft, it’s muffled cries suppressed by the ‘humantissue’, black mask, and immediately jabbed a needle into its rump with the first of forty-six vaccines to be administered in the next twelve weeks. The proud parents, speaking from their bedroom in Forest Hills, Nevada, named the infant Social Distantoinette. Of course, this birth… and the many more to follow… is the result of the Tripedzed vaccine administered after the thirty-seventh variation wave of CO-VID 19 in November, 2028. It was revealed in May that this particular vaccine carried the formula for pregnant mothers to conceive such a wondrous solution to conquering this long, long, long, on-going battle with the disease. It was anticipated that because of the seventeenth ‘black’ lockdown, where no one was even allowed to peep a nose out their front door, a Gen CO-VID X cohort would follow and something was needed to stem the potential onslaught.
Elsewhere… our reporter, Sharon Redstone, interviewed Dr. Benjamin Ouahou who is the country’s leading authority on endless years of lockdowns, strict public health measures and enforced vaccinations and the effect they are having on our older teenagers and younger twenty-somethings, who for the most part were just kids when all of this started. “Dr. Ouahou, thank you for joining us from your cave in the Borneo forest. Let me ask you, what signs are you seeing that all of this is having a severe, permanent effect on our young folk? Yes, well, first all, Sharon, can I ask you to just step back from your microphone a bit… and if you have a sanitized wipe you could use on it, even better. Reports are increasing that the latest strain of CO-VID 44 is being transmitted through electrical wires. Anyway, yes our young people are suffering. It has been four years since the last gym, a YMCA in Baton Rouge, closed down for good. The exercise facilities these young folk need to build strong bodies, healthy teeth and sound minds is non-existent, with the more resourceful of them desperately trying to maintain home gyms in basements or outdoors. However, supplies are so limited that even that is increasingly more difficult. “Okay, well thank you Dr. Ouahou. Pardon, what did you say, Sharon? (yelling) I said, thank you! Can you hear me? I’m twenty meters away from the microphone! I said thank you!”
Umm, ya... well, finally, a group of protesters, calling themselves Remember Mom’s Apple Pie, staged a peaceful demonstration outside of the parliament buildings today, trying to urge the Prime Minister to ease up a tad on the draconian travel restrictions that have been in place since fall of 2025. They demanded to at least be allowed to go to park once a week, visit a sick and elderly relative in a town not too far away and be permitted to write a post on Facebook saying that they could only dream about a vacation to the Galapagos Islands. Police, equipped with water cannons, masked, face-shielded German Shepherds and Lysol spray bottles, quickly broke that fiasco up, shooing ‘em all back to their residences and into the protective surroundings that only their Home Sweet Home can provide... for their own safety, of course! This is Rab Constantinoff saying, “With everyone’s cooperation, we can beat this terrible disease…don’t think about your own needs but rather, your social responsibility to your fellow human beings and together, we might… umm, I mean together, we will win the war. Good night."
Some Squealing pig Pinot noir rosé etc etc then the midwives..
First Violet Crumble since they were called Hoadleys Violet Crumble…
Abel Hoadley g.co/kgs/92kofD
When he produced his first chocolate assortment, Hoadley packed it with a piece of honeycomb. The honeycomb became so popular that Hoadley decided to produce an individual honeycomb bar. This was not an easy task; as the pieces of honeycomb cooled, they absorbed moisture and started sticking together. Eventually, this hygroscopic nature of honeycomb led Hoadley to dip the honeycomb bars in chocolate, keeping the honeycomb dry and crunchy. Thus, in 1913, the Violet Crumble bar was created.
Hoadley wanted to call his new bar just Crumble, but learned that it was an unprotectable name. He thought of his wife (Susannah Ann née Barrett) and her favourite flower, the violet, and registered the name Violet Crumble, using a purple wrapper with a small flower logo. The confectionery bar was an instant success at the time and has remained popular into the twenty-first century.
In Afghanistan we visited project sites of Healnet TPO, a Dutch based NGO with years of experience in Afghanistan. We visited project sites in Jalalabad and around to learn more on their midwifery programs that run throughout the government. Their policies have now been implemented by the Afghan government through the whole country.
The former Lady Bowen Hospital, on Wickham Terrace, is a complex of three buildings, the earliest of which was constructed as the second purpose built home of the Brisbane Lying-In Hospital in 1889 - 1890. In 1938 the Lady Bowen Hospital was superseded by the Brisbane Women's Hospital and the site on Wickham Terrace was leased for a variety of purposes.
During the nineteenth century childbirth frequently resulted in the death of the mother and/or baby. Usually, babies were delivered in the family home with the assistance of midwives, of varying degrees of experience and training. During the time of the penal settlement, care for those women who could not afford the expense of a midwife, was available from the female prison, firstly located in Queen Street and later at Eagle Farm. Following the closure of this, destitute women were unable to find medical attention during childbirth until the formation of the Queensland Lying-In Hospital in 1864.
A committee was formed for the establishment of a lying-in hospital following a report in the Brisbane Courier of the 16th of August 1864 requesting those interested in the establishment of such an institution to attend a meeting at the Armoury on the 19th of August at 4.00pm. The committee formed as a result of this meeting lobbied the colonial government of the time for partial funding, under the provisions Hospitals Act 1862 which allowed funding to be used to assist the establishment of hospitals. Previously Queensland hospitals were established solely by public donation. The colonial government, under Governor Bowen allocated £500 toward the establishment of the first public lying-in hospital.
From the outset, the Ladies' Committee of the Lying-In Hospital sought to achieve three aims: firstly to improve midwifery standards in the state, secondly to change community attitudes toward accepting childbirth in hospitals and thirdly to promote moral reform in unwed mothers. To achieve the first aim, the training of midwives was conducted from the earliest days of the hospital in the 1860s.
On the 1st of September 1864, a joint committee of ladies and gentlemen or the proposed Lying-In Hospital was held to consider the objectives of the new hospital. At this meeting, a Ladies' Committee was appointed in which the management of the institution was vested and comprising the wives of many early prominent Brisbane citizens. The Ladies Committee was supported by a men's committee who provided advice and reference as required. The hospital, officially called, the Queensland Lying-In Hospital, was opened on the 2nd of November 1864 in a house, Fairview, in Leichhardt Street, Spring Hill. This was described in an advertisement in the Brisbane Courier as having six large rooms, detached kitchen, and servant's room, with tank and yard. The Ladies' Committee rented Fairview for £120 per annum.
The hospital remained in this rented accommodation in Leichhardt Street until 1866 when the Lying-In Hospital was moved to a new purpose designed building in Ann Street, between Edward and Albert Street and adjacent to the Servants' Home (now known as the School of Arts). This was an eight roomed building with beds for twelve patients and ancillary rooms. In late 1867, this building was renamed the Lady Bowen Lying-In Hospital in recognition of the wife of Governor George Bowen, Lady Diamantina Roma Bowen. During her life in Queensland, Lady Bowen was an avid participant and organiser of charitable and social activities.
The Lady Bowen Lying-In Hospital remained in Ann Street for about twenty-five years until 1889 when a larger hospital was built, on the outskirts of the central business area of Brisbane and overlooking Albert Park. A bill was passed in parliament to allow for the sale of the hospital in Ann Street to allow the Ladies' Committee to procure land elsewhere for reasons that:
The situation is not by any means healthy, as the aspect is wrong for both breeze and sun; the situation is noisy; the present institution cannot be thoroughly cleaned without closing; and it is quite impossible to separate married women from single women, which separation is of course most desirable.
The Ann Street property was sold for £6000 and patients were transferred to a property in Wharf Street, awaiting the opening of the Wickham Terrace Hospital. In October 1888 the Ladies Committee acquired the Wickham Terrace property, where formerly the house of Reginald H Roe, Head Master of Brisbane Grammar School, was stied. Roe moved from his Wickham Terrace residence, known as Winholm, to a boarding house on the Brisbane Grammar site. Winholm is thought to have been demolished to make way for the lying-in hospital, certainly neither documentary nor physical evidence suggests that the house has been retained within the hospital complex.
Following the acquisition of the land, the Ladies' Committee commissioned Brisbane architect, John Hingestone Buckeridge to design the new two storeyed hospital. Buckeridge arrived in Brisbane in February 1887 to take up his appointment as the Diocesan architect for the Bishop of Brisbane, Dr Webber. Previously, Buckeridge worked in London as an architect following his training with prominent British ecclesiastical architect, John Loughborough Pearson and studied at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Architectural Association. His appointment to the Diocese of Brisbane was to assist Webber on an ambitious church building program. Following the death of his wife, Buckeridge accepted the position in Queensland where one of his principal jobs was the supervision of the Church of England Cathedral, Saint John's, designed by his former principal, JL Pearson. Buckeridge worked in the position of Diocesan Architect officially until 1902 although for many of the later years he lived in Sydney. He designed about 60 timber churches throughout south east Queensland, including Christ Church, Milton (1891); along with a number of public and commercial buildings including the Gresham Hotel.
The design Buckeridge provided for the Lady Bowen Hospital was for a two storeyed brick building with a substantial basement level and with capacity for fifty patients. The building was constructed by local contractor John Quinn who won the tender for construction of the building for £6200. The ground floor of the building housed an entrance hall, a sewing room for nurses and wards with bathrooms and linen rooms, Above on the first floor were a number of wards, and below in the basement were the nurses' dining room and kitchens. A separate building to the rear of the hospital was used for septic cases.
The foundation stone of the new hospital was laid by Lady Alice Norman on the 29th of May 1889 and the first patients were admitted to the hospital on the 1st of January 1890. No major additions or alterations were made to the complex until 1923 when the government approved the expenditure of £15 000 for the construction of a Nurses' Quarters to the west of the original building.
The introduction of the Hospitals Act 1923 established an alternate structure with regional hospital boards for the management of Queensland hospitals. The management of the Lady Bowen Lying-In Hospital was vested in the Brisbane and South Coast Hospital Board from 1924. This brought about standardised practice throughout Queensland hospitals and official government contributions to the funding of hospitals. The State government took over full responsibility for the running of hospitals in 1945. The Ladies' Committee officially disbanded in 1924, although they retained an advisory role on the new board of management.
By the 1920s, the Lady Bowen Hospital was seen to require upgrading and repairs. With growing concern over the high incidence of infant mortality, legislation was passed in the form of the Maternity Act 1922 to provide support and care for children and mothers. The Hospitals Board commissioned a report from the Professor of Obstetrics at the University of Sydney who recommended the construction of a new obstetrics hospital in the grounds of the Brisbane Hospital at Herston. The Hospitals Board were given government approval and funding in line with government platform, increasing support for women's and children's healthcare. The construction of a new obstetrics hospital, known as the Brisbane Women's Hospital was approved in 1929 and was opened in 1938. During this period Lady Bowen continued to operate and an operating theatre was constructed and sewerage system installed.
The Lady Bowen Hospital was closed and staff and patients were transferred to the new women's hospital which opened on the 26th of March 1938. This heralded an era of short term leasees and alterations to the buildings of the former Lady Bowen Hospital which continues to the present day. The many tenants who have occupied the buildings since 1938 include the Bridge Board, the Social Service League, Essential and Emergency Services of the Civil Defence Organisation, the Australian Army Canteen Services, the Stanley River Works Board, the Returned Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia, the Queensland State Archives, Agricultural Project (later the Agricultural and Environmental Education Branch and later, the Brisbane Urban Environmental Education Centre), the Australian Music Examination Board, Apprenticeship Board of Queensland, Department of Health (Chest Clinic for the Division of Health and Medical Physics), and the Queensland Writers Centre.
Of the tenants who have occupied the buildings since the relocation of the hospital, the various Army related tenants during World War II were most significant. The obvious impact of this tenancy was the construction of the two storeyed timber framed and fibrous-sheeting clad building on the corner of Wickham Terrace and Robert Street. In the early stages of the War the site was occupied by the Air Raid Warden's Organisation which became later the Civil Defence Organisation. In 1943 the site was acquired for use as a serviceman's club, known as Anzac House. During this occupation, the Royal Australian Engineers Unit were responsible for the conversion of the hospital into a hostel with dining and other recreational facilities. Across Wickham Terrace, in Albert Park, a related dance pavilion was constructed. This has since been demolished.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
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Local call number: pr25426
Title: Izzelly Hardin, mid-wife, walking on the road - Riviera Beach
Date: May 1939.
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - sepia - 11 x 14 in.
Series Title: Print Collections
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida
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Trained community midwives offer community-based care for hard-to-reach women in rural areas of Yemen. © UNICEF Yemen/2010/Rasha Al-Ardi
The former Lady Bowen Hospital, on Wickham Terrace, is a complex of three buildings, the earliest of which was constructed as the second purpose built home of the Brisbane Lying-In Hospital in 1889 - 1890. In 1938 the Lady Bowen Hospital was superseded by the Brisbane Women's Hospital and the site on Wickham Terrace was leased for a variety of purposes.
During the nineteenth century childbirth frequently resulted in the death of the mother and/or baby. Usually, babies were delivered in the family home with the assistance of midwives, of varying degrees of experience and training. During the time of the penal settlement, care for those women who could not afford the expense of a midwife, was available from the female prison, firstly located in Queen Street and later at Eagle Farm. Following the closure of this, destitute women were unable to find medical attention during childbirth until the formation of the Queensland Lying-In Hospital in 1864.
A committee was formed for the establishment of a lying-in hospital following a report in the Brisbane Courier of the 16th of August 1864 requesting those interested in the establishment of such an institution to attend a meeting at the Armoury on the 19th of August at 4.00pm. The committee formed as a result of this meeting lobbied the colonial government of the time for partial funding, under the provisions Hospitals Act 1862 which allowed funding to be used to assist the establishment of hospitals. Previously Queensland hospitals were established solely by public donation. The colonial government, under Governor Bowen allocated £500 toward the establishment of the first public lying-in hospital.
From the outset, the Ladies' Committee of the Lying-In Hospital sought to achieve three aims: firstly to improve midwifery standards in the state, secondly to change community attitudes toward accepting childbirth in hospitals and thirdly to promote moral reform in unwed mothers. To achieve the first aim, the training of midwives was conducted from the earliest days of the hospital in the 1860s.
On the 1st of September 1864, a joint committee of ladies and gentlemen or the proposed Lying-In Hospital was held to consider the objectives of the new hospital. At this meeting, a Ladies' Committee was appointed in which the management of the institution was vested and comprising the wives of many early prominent Brisbane citizens. The Ladies Committee was supported by a men's committee who provided advice and reference as required. The hospital, officially called, the Queensland Lying-In Hospital, was opened on the 2nd of November 1864 in a house, Fairview, in Leichhardt Street, Spring Hill. This was described in an advertisement in the Brisbane Courier as having six large rooms, detached kitchen, and servant's room, with tank and yard. The Ladies' Committee rented Fairview for £120 per annum.
The hospital remained in this rented accommodation in Leichhardt Street until 1866 when the Lying-In Hospital was moved to a new purpose designed building in Ann Street, between Edward and Albert Street and adjacent to the Servants' Home (now known as the School of Arts). This was an eight roomed building with beds for twelve patients and ancillary rooms. In late 1867, this building was renamed the Lady Bowen Lying-In Hospital in recognition of the wife of Governor George Bowen, Lady Diamantina Roma Bowen. During her life in Queensland, Lady Bowen was an avid participant and organiser of charitable and social activities.
The Lady Bowen Lying-In Hospital remained in Ann Street for about twenty-five years until 1889 when a larger hospital was built, on the outskirts of the central business area of Brisbane and overlooking Albert Park. A bill was passed in parliament to allow for the sale of the hospital in Ann Street to allow the Ladies' Committee to procure land elsewhere for reasons that:
The situation is not by any means healthy, as the aspect is wrong for both breeze and sun; the situation is noisy; the present institution cannot be thoroughly cleaned without closing; and it is quite impossible to separate married women from single women, which separation is of course most desirable.
The Ann Street property was sold for £6000 and patients were transferred to a property in Wharf Street, awaiting the opening of the Wickham Terrace Hospital. In October 1888 the Ladies Committee acquired the Wickham Terrace property, where formerly the house of Reginald H Roe, Head Master of Brisbane Grammar School, was stied. Roe moved from his Wickham Terrace residence, known as Winholm, to a boarding house on the Brisbane Grammar site. Winholm is thought to have been demolished to make way for the lying-in hospital, certainly neither documentary nor physical evidence suggests that the house has been retained within the hospital complex.
Following the acquisition of the land, the Ladies' Committee commissioned Brisbane architect, John Hingestone Buckeridge to design the new two storeyed hospital. Buckeridge arrived in Brisbane in February 1887 to take up his appointment as the Diocesan architect for the Bishop of Brisbane, Dr Webber. Previously, Buckeridge worked in London as an architect following his training with prominent British ecclesiastical architect, John Loughborough Pearson and studied at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Architectural Association. His appointment to the Diocese of Brisbane was to assist Webber on an ambitious church building program. Following the death of his wife, Buckeridge accepted the position in Queensland where one of his principal jobs was the supervision of the Church of England Cathedral, Saint John's, designed by his former principal, JL Pearson. Buckeridge worked in the position of Diocesan Architect officially until 1902 although for many of the later years he lived in Sydney. He designed about 60 timber churches throughout south east Queensland, including Christ Church, Milton (1891); along with a number of public and commercial buildings including the Gresham Hotel.
The design Buckeridge provided for the Lady Bowen Hospital was for a two storeyed brick building with a substantial basement level and with capacity for fifty patients. The building was constructed by local contractor John Quinn who won the tender for construction of the building for £6200. The ground floor of the building housed an entrance hall, a sewing room for nurses and wards with bathrooms and linen rooms, Above on the first floor were a number of wards, and below in the basement were the nurses' dining room and kitchens. A separate building to the rear of the hospital was used for septic cases.
The foundation stone of the new hospital was laid by Lady Alice Norman on the 29th of May 1889 and the first patients were admitted to the hospital on the 1st of January 1890. No major additions or alterations were made to the complex until 1923 when the government approved the expenditure of £15 000 for the construction of a Nurses' Quarters to the west of the original building.
The introduction of the Hospitals Act 1923 established an alternate structure with regional hospital boards for the management of Queensland hospitals. The management of the Lady Bowen Lying-In Hospital was vested in the Brisbane and South Coast Hospital Board from 1924. This brought about standardised practice throughout Queensland hospitals and official government contributions to the funding of hospitals. The State government took over full responsibility for the running of hospitals in 1945. The Ladies' Committee officially disbanded in 1924, although they retained an advisory role on the new board of management.
By the 1920s, the Lady Bowen Hospital was seen to require upgrading and repairs. With growing concern over the high incidence of infant mortality, legislation was passed in the form of the Maternity Act 1922 to provide support and care for children and mothers. The Hospitals Board commissioned a report from the Professor of Obstetrics at the University of Sydney who recommended the construction of a new obstetrics hospital in the grounds of the Brisbane Hospital at Herston. The Hospitals Board were given government approval and funding in line with government platform, increasing support for women's and children's healthcare. The construction of a new obstetrics hospital, known as the Brisbane Women's Hospital was approved in 1929 and was opened in 1938. During this period Lady Bowen continued to operate and an operating theatre was constructed and sewerage system installed.
The Lady Bowen Hospital was closed and staff and patients were transferred to the new women's hospital which opened on the 26th of March 1938. This heralded an era of short term leasees and alterations to the buildings of the former Lady Bowen Hospital which continues to the present day. The many tenants who have occupied the buildings since 1938 include the Bridge Board, the Social Service League, Essential and Emergency Services of the Civil Defence Organisation, the Australian Army Canteen Services, the Stanley River Works Board, the Returned Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia, the Queensland State Archives, Agricultural Project (later the Agricultural and Environmental Education Branch and later, the Brisbane Urban Environmental Education Centre), the Australian Music Examination Board, Apprenticeship Board of Queensland, Department of Health (Chest Clinic for the Division of Health and Medical Physics), and the Queensland Writers Centre.
Of the tenants who have occupied the buildings since the relocation of the hospital, the various Army related tenants during World War II were most significant. The obvious impact of this tenancy was the construction of the two storeyed timber framed and fibrous-sheeting clad building on the corner of Wickham Terrace and Robert Street. In the early stages of the War the site was occupied by the Air Raid Warden's Organisation which became later the Civil Defence Organisation. In 1943 the site was acquired for use as a serviceman's club, known as Anzac House. During this occupation, the Royal Australian Engineers Unit were responsible for the conversion of the hospital into a hostel with dining and other recreational facilities. Across Wickham Terrace, in Albert Park, a related dance pavilion was constructed. This has since been demolished.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
Still shot from "Sex Ed Night" performance, coinciding with "Feeling Good About Growing Up", an art show I curated. That's me on the L with the hot dog.
Two midwives place an intravenous drip for one of their patients in the maternity ward of Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.
UN Photo/Tobin Jones
04 February 2014
Mogadishu, Somalia
Photo # 579012
Caption: KITGUM, Uganda, Oct 20 -- Pfc. Kendra Hines, an Army Reserve medic from Lubbock, Texas, currently deployed with the 7225th Medical Support Unit (MSU) in northern Uganda, hands a newborn to his mother. The 19-year-old expectant mother arrived at the Pajimo Clinic in an advanced state of labor, and Hines was called upon to assist. The mother gave birth to a healthy, 5.5 lb. baby boy about 90 minutes later. (Photo credit Maj. Corey Schultz, Army Reserve Communications.)
Full Story:
Army Reserve Nurse Delivers Baby in Rural Uganda
By Maj.Corey Schultz, U.S. Army Reserve Command
KITGUM, Uganda -- When 1st Lt. Victoria Lynn Watson deployed to Uganda for Natural Fire 10, she never imagined using her labor and delivery nursing skills during the exercise.
But when a Ugandan woman, Linda, arrived in labor at Pajimo medical clinic, where the Army Reserve's 7225th Medical Support Unit was partnering with East African medics to offer healthcare to the Kitgum community, Watson sprang into action.
She checked her watch. It was nearly 2:30 pm when medics hurried the 19-year-old expectant mother from the clinic gates where hundreds had gathered to receive care.
During the 10-day exercise, the medics run a daily clinic to treat upwards of 700 Ugandans a day for ailments such as arthritis, minor wounds, skin infections --and dental and optometry care. Soldiers from Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya and Burundi are working alongside U.S. troops on medical, dental and engineering projects in the Kitgum region. Meanwhile, each nation is also taking part in security training and a simulated disaster relief exercise.
While pregnancy was not a planned treatment, the Pajimo clinic staffs a midwife and Watson was eager to assist. If the U.S. Army Reserve officer were back home in Abilene, Texas, she would do the same.
"This is what I do. I'm a labor and delivery nurse in my civilian job," Watson said, hurrying past Ugandan families clutching medicines and awaiting dental checks, "This is what I live for."
Watson serves with the 7231st Medical Support Unit in Lubbock, Texas, but volunteered to augment the 7225th for Uganda.
Once in the clinics maternity ward, Watson and Pfc. Kendra Hinds, a U.S. Army Reserve medic from Lubbock, Texas, joined Stella, the Ugandan midwife. Stella asked the lieutenant to work with her to deliver the child.
Stella and her Ugandan assistant prepared the delivery room. Watson's examined the woman - nine centimeters and having contractions. Her watch read 3 p.m.
Hinds never helped a woman give birth. So, Watson talked her through the exam as they felt the mother's stomach to see where the baby was.
"You can feel the contractions," Watson said to Hines. "Her sides and belly get hard. Feel here...that's the head. It's in the right place, that's good. The baby is aligned right."
The midwife, Stella Betty Lamono – who goes by Stella, produced a Pinnard Horn - a wooden listening device not often seen in America that is used to hear the baby's heartbeat. Watson and Hinds took turns listening.
Then Stella posed a question.
"You are delivering," Stella said. "You should name the baby."
"OK, I'll name the baby," Watson said, in a light-hearted way. "How about, let's see...Gracie for a girl? Yes, I like Gracie."
"And a boy?" asked Stella.
"Okay, for a boy...Cage. I like Cage."
Stella translated. The mother smiled, amused despite her obvious discomfort. It was nearly 3:30 p.m., the baby was coming but the delivery team still had things to do. They tried to start an intravenous drip.
There was a problem, they couldn't find a vein. They spoke with the mother and found she had not eaten anything for two days.
"She's dehydrated, she needs something with sugar," Watson said.
Soldiers offered sweet powdered drink pack from their daily rations - MRE's, such as lemon-flavored ice tea and a lemon-lime electrolyte drinks.
Watson stirred each drink in a green plastic cup and gave it to the mother, who drank thirstily.
The team then found a vein for an IV, the mother tried to relax. From time to time, she would lift a pink curtain and gaze through the window into the dusty yard. Things quieted.
Meanwhile, her sister arranged swaddling clothes on the receiving table at the other side of the room.
"How many weeks is she?" Hinds asked.
"Thirty-eight," Stella said, confidently.
Ugandan midwives determine the duration of the pregnancy by feeling the stomach for the size of the baby's head versus the height of the fundus -- how high the uterus has pressed upwards into the diaphragm.
"This is amazing," Watson said. "In the States, doctors run a sonogram over the belly, ask for the date of the last menstrual period, and go from there. We learn the 'old school' way, but we never actually do it like Stella has."
Certified Ugandan midwifes attend a three-year school, Stella said, herself a midwife with seven years experience who delivers up to 28 babies each month -- often in rural clinics.
The contractions continued. The mother remained stoic despite the lack of any pain medicine. Sweat beaded on her face, veins throbbed along her neck. She would lay calm more moments, the moan softly and slap the nearby wall. Hinds grabbed a cloth and patted her face and held her hands through contractions.
"Most girls in the States would be yelling and hollering by now," Watson said.
Unlike in the States, the clinic had no monitors, electrical gadgetry or air conditioning. It did have clean water, sterilized equipment and a trained midwife, plus her U.S. counterparts.
It was around 4 p.m., when the mother groaned and slapped the wall again.
"She's in second stage," Watson said. "All she has to do now is push."
A few minutes passed, the mother began to push – Hinds held her hand and continued to comfort her. Then came a loud cry from a healthy baby boy. It was 4:30 p.m.
Watson wiped him down. He waved his tiny hands and stared around the room with large, alert eyes. Stella tied up the stump of the umbilical cord
"You delivered the baby, what name did you pick for a baby boy,” Stella said, reminding Watson.
“Cage," Watson replied. "But I can't name her baby. It's her baby!"
Hinds placed the infant into his mother's arms. The new mom smiled.
"What is she going to name him?" Watson asked. Stella translated. The mother answered --and Stella began to laugh.
"What did she say?" Watson asked.
"She decided she liked the name you picked," Stella said. "She named her little boy 'Cage'."
Outside, U.S. and East African medics were closing up for the day, handing out the final doses of vitamins and routine medications, when they learned the good news. An officer took out the records reflecting the number of people treated, changing 714 to 715, to add Cage - Kitgum's newest resident.
"It's pretty amazing there's a little one out here that I named and that I helped bring into this world," Watson said. "Pretty amazing."
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In Afghanistan we visited project sites of Healnet TPO, a Dutch based NGO with years of experience in Afghanistan. We visited project sites in Jalalabad and around to learn more on their midwifery programs that run throughout the government. Their policies have now been implemented by the Afghan government through the whole country.
Nurses, midwives and other health workers are on the front-lines of the #COVID19 response, putting their own health at risk to protect the broader community. 7th April is World Health Day !
Trinity Care Foundation team at 3 Primary Health Centers, donating N95 Masks and Sanitizers for the Staff. Donate for Medical Professionals & Healthcare staff at Government facilities @ fundraisers.giveindia.org/projects/fight-against-covid19
Visit to support : www.trinitycarefoundation.com/covid19
For more detailed information regarding our COVID-19 interventions as part of CSR Initiative, please write to Dr. Tony Thomas at support@trinitycarefoundation.org |
Nurses, midwives and other health workers are on the front-lines of the #COVID19 response, putting their own health at risk to protect the broader community. 7th April is World Health Day !
Trinity Care Foundation team at 3 Primary Health Centers, donating N95 Masks and Sanitizers for the Staff. Donate for Medical Professionals & Healthcare staff at Government facilities @ fundraisers.giveindia.org/projects/fight-against-covid19
Visit to support : www.trinitycarefoundation.com/covid19
For more detailed information regarding our COVID-19 interventions as part of CSR Initiative, please write to Dr. Tony Thomas at support@trinitycarefoundation.org |
This could be described as being in Grangegorman.
The Richmond originally formed part of a complex of three hospitals – the others were the Whitworth and Hardwick – collectively known as St Laurence’s.
The building in my photographs was constructed in the 1890s to replace a former convent that had been there since 1807. I do not know why, but the hospital did not open until 1901 with the two wings of the U-shaped complex accommodating all of the wards. There was one window for each bed. The double loggias at the ends of the wings allowed sheltered access to fresh air for patients
In 1994, the Richmond and Whitworth hospitals were converted into business centres and a self-storage facility.
In 1996 The Richmond was leased by the Government for use as District courts. The building housed five of the Dublin District Courts until the opening of the new Criminal Courts of Justice.
In January 2014 it was announced that the building had been acquired by the Irish Nurses and Midwives’ Organisation (INMO) for use as an education and event centre. However, it appears to be unoccupied at present with some construction work ongoing.
In July 2016 I came across the following statement by the INMO - "I now wish to confirm that the refurbishment works, on the Richmond Building, will commence shortly and will take a little under six months to complete. The refurbishment works are designed to provide the Organisation with an Education and Event Centre that will allow us to greatly expand the full range of professional, educational, industrial relations and other courses that we provide to members on an ongoing basis."
"We have the highest maternal and infant mortality rate in the country because our workforce is very, very low. People deliver at home," says Aisha, principal of Jigawa State School of Midwifery in Nigeria. But by 2015, the new Jigawa midwifery school hopes to have trained 200-300 students who will work within the region to save mothers’ and babies’ lives.
Background
In Spring 2012, the British Government launched a new scheme – Women for Health – to support 7,000 girls and women to train as health workers in northern Nigeria by 2016. The new skills they learn will help save the lives of thousands of mums, babies and children.
Find out more at www.dfid.gov.uk/midwives-in-nigeria
Picture: Lindsay Mgbor/Department for International Development
This year's midwives protest was much more serious and sombre due to Tory government cuts and austerity. Audio of speeches here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXtQenPNdwY&t=645s
Short video clip here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWVWciQG8qs
Update:
Rcm Warns Of A Worsening Crisis
27th January 2023
THE Royal College of Midwives is warning of a worsening maternity crisis as a senior midwife survey shows services at boiling point.
‘The maternity crisis we warned about is here.’ That’s the message from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) as a survey of UK senior midwives says they are relying significantly on the goodwill of staff working extra hours to ensure safe services.
The finding paints a stark picture of chronic workforce shortages and challenges, with maternity services often only functioning safely because of staff working long and additional hours, often unpaid.
It also shows a service haemorrhaging midwives at an alarming rate. The loss of experienced midwives is also impacting on the ability to support and train student midwives on their placements in the NHS.
‘They are leaving because they cannot deliver the quality of care they so desperately want to, because of their falling pay, and because they are exhausted, fragile and burnt-out,’ says the RCM.
Responses to the survey of directors and heads of midwifery (DoM/HoM) across the UK paint a stark picture of the maternity crisis as services struggle to staff units and recruit and retain midwives.
The survey results underline the seriousness of the situation with 78% of respondents saying it was difficult or very difficult to ensure staff take their breaks and leave work on time.
The RCM is balloting members in Northern Ireland from 31 January on the 2022/23 pay award.
Participation in the process for 2023/24 does not mean that 2022/23 pay dispute is settled or that the outcome of the process will be accepted by RCM members, the survey says.
The average midwife has lost around £56,000 in real earnings since 2008, according to the TUC due to pay stagnation and freezes, and inflation is currently in double digits.
In a direct message to the Westminster government the RCM says it remains ready to enter into negotiations.
Dr Suzanne Tyler, RCM Executive Director, Trade Union, said: ‘Our worst fears about where we saw maternity services heading are becoming a reality and the fault lies squarely at the door of successive Conservative governments.
‘Chronic understaffing is hitting the morale of midwives and maternity support workers (MSW) and the safety of care. They are leaving in droves and the government must plug this worrying leak as a matter of real urgency.
‘Improving pay, more investment and increasing the workforce are crucial to building back our shattered maternity services. The government must do that now and it can start with giving maternity staff the inflation busting pay award they deserve.’
In Scotland, the RCM has not accepted the pay offer there and has a mandate to take industrial action following a formal ballot. It is currently in talks with the Scottish government to seek a solution to these issues.
The RCM will begin balloting members over pay in Northern Ireland next week. RCM members in Wales are set to take strike action on 7 February followed by a week of action short of a strike.
San Ramon was once famously invoked during the Spanish era by expectant mothers and midwives because of the nature of his own birth (His nickname in latin: Nonnatus, "not born") He was delivered by Caesarean operation, his mother having died while giving birth to him.
Images of him can be seen in large number in the colonies of the Spanish Empire including the Philippines.
His father later gave him permission to take the habit with the Mercedarians at Barcelona. The order was founded to ransom Christian captives from the Moors of North Africa.
Raymond was trained by the founder of that Order himself, St. Peter Nolasco. He was ordained a priest in 1222 and later became Master General of the Order.
Raymond then set out to fulfill the goals of Order. He went to Valencia, where he ransomed 140 Christians from slavery. He then traveled to North Africa, where he was able to ransom another 250 captives in Algiers, and then went to Tunis, where he is said to have surrendered himself as a hostage for 28 captive Christians when his money ran out, in keeping with a special fourth vow taken by the members of the Order.
He suffered in captivity as a legend states that the Moors bored a hole through his lips with a hot iron, and padlocked his mouth to prevent him from preaching. He was ransomed by his Order and returned to Spain in 1239.
One particular ritual is centered around the padlock that is part of his martyrdom. Locks are placed at his altar to stop gossip, rumors, false testimonies and bad talk.
San Ramon Nonato, spare us from perjury!
This is a small wall quilt (about 30"x30") that my artist collective, The Midwives Collective & Gallery, did as a raffle piece for the Midwives For Haiti, a nonprofit organization that sends nurses and midwives to Haiti to help educate new and expectant mothers and to provide a clean and safe environment for pregnant mothers during birthing.
RAFFLES AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE TO WIN THIS PIECE: midwivescollective.com/content/relief-haiti-quilt-raffle
or you can email us at themwc@gmail.com
Please learn more about Midwives for Haiti here: www.midwivesforhaiti.org
Raffles are $2 for one ticket, $5 for three tickets, $10 for seven tickets.
100% of this quilt raffle will go to Midwives For Haiti as well as 20% of sales of any individual artworks from the show.
Midwives at Tyrone County Hospital: From left to right Jim Henderson pictured with Sister Coyle, Sister Devlin, Sister Graham and Nurse Gormley
"It's not just the making of
babies, but the making of
mothers that midwives see as
the miracle of birth."
-- Barbara Katz Rothman.
For more on the closing of the Takoma Women's Health Center, see:
Allison Baker, "Takoma Women's Health Center forced to close
Local midwives say that support from the rest of the medical community is inadequate" Takoma Voice, April, 2007
THOUSANDS of midwives and their supporters protested in towns and cities across the UK at 2.00pm on Sunday to highlight the crisis in maternity services.
Rallies were held in London’s Parliament Square, Birmingham and Manchester and many other town and city centres in England, Scotland and Wales.
Elizabeth Duff tweeted: ‘#MarchwithMidwives 100s of midwives & supporters in Parliament Square today expressing frustration, grief, courage in crisis & above all togetherness. Mums, dads, birthing people, babies, children. Everyone’s been born: mostly with help of a midwife.’
The protests were organised by March with Midwives UK, which said in a statement: ‘It is clear that maternity services in the UK are in crisis.
‘Giving birth in the UK, a high-income country, is becoming critically unsafe. This is unacceptable.
‘Where we have women, birthing people and babies at risk; their families, communities and countries become sick.
‘This is a genuine national emergency which impacts every level of society.
‘We call on the UK government to implement urgent crisis management and resources.
‘Government promises are not being kept and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Maternity must take responsibility for their silence and call for immediate action.’
The group called on politicians:
to listen to all staff and service users and their advocates;
fund emergency retention of staff; enable all qualified midwives who are willing to work, and support students to enter training and finish their courses;
reduce demands on staff.
Giving its support to the protests, the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) warned that staff are exhausted after years of working in wards with ‘too few staff and inadequate resources.’
The RCM executive director for external relations, Jon Skewes, stressed that staff are ‘reaching the end of their tether’, resulting in more than half of all midwives looking to leave the profession.
Skewes said: ‘NHS Trusts and Boards have relied on the goodwill of staff, and their genuine love of what they do, to maintain services – but staff are reaching the end of their tether.
‘Last month, we published a survey that showed that 57% of midwives are looking to leave – and the biggest group among them are those who have only been working for five years or less.
‘The UK and national governments have to do more, not only to train and recruit new midwives into the NHS, but to retain the ones we have.
‘Staff are frankly exhausted, many feel like they have nothing left to give – and services are suffering as a result.
‘We’re grateful to March with Midwives for highlighting the work we have been doing to get politicians and policy makers to pay attention to this untenable situation.’
In Nottingham, dozens of supporters set off from Forest Recreation Ground at 2.00pm.
Organiser Chantelle Thornley, a community midwife in Nottinghamshire, said: ‘I have been a midwife for 25 years and it is the first time I have felt I need to act.
‘We work a 13-hour day.
‘Most of the time we barely have time to get a drink or go to the toilet.
‘We are expected to look after three to four labouring women at one time.
‘How can you give them your undivided attention?’
Katie Campion, an anti-natal educator, helped to organise the march of over a hundred in Leeds.
She said: ‘Midwives are stretched, they’re burnt out, they’re ready to leave and it’s about the safety of the birthing women, the parents and the midwives as well.
‘Physically and mentally they can’t cope with what they have to deal with at the moment and it’s about supporting them.’
One of the hundreds of participants demonstrating at College Green in Bristol, midwife Sophie Inman said: ‘You are part of this beautiful daily experience but it’s being tainted by the struggles of staffing in the country.
‘At the moment we are struggling every single day.
‘We’re turning up to work not knowing if there’s going to be enough of us.
‘It’s a national issue and I’m so proud to be a part of this nationwide movement to try and eradicate that.’
Katie Falvey, a 21-year-old final year student midwife from Essex studying in Wales, spoke out at the rally in Cardiff.
She said: ‘We need to make sure that the government and public are aware of the crisis we’re facing.’
On the march in Bangor, new mum Vikki Mill said that without support from her midwives, she or her daughter ‘simply wouldn’t be here today’.
She stressed: ‘My story is not unique. To give birth, you rely on midwives.
‘It’s a momentous time in someone’s life but you need medical trained professionals.’
The Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services (AIMS) charity, founded in 1960 by Sally Willington to support women and families to achieve the birth that they want, issued a statement earlier in November.
AIMS Statement concerning the nationwide March With Midwives vigils taking place on November 21st 2021
‘Times are incredibly tough across the maternity services in the UK at the moment.
‘AIMS would like to take this opportunity to thank every single member of the maternity staff teams across the UK, and all those who support them, for doing their best in the most difficult of circumstances.
‘As in many other areas of life, the Covid19 pandemic has shone a light on existing weaknesses in our maternity services as well as adding its own pressures.
‘Most immediately, the pandemic situation, in addition to the effects of Brexit, creates a staffing crisis that we desperately need to get through together.
‘We need well-supported maternity staff to be available to offer families the support they need, when and where they need it.
‘It’s not complicated, even if it seems particularly hard to achieve: well-supported staff are most likely to be able to support families well.
‘The March with Midwives vigils across the country this weekend will see service users standing in solidarity with maternity staff, and midwives in particular, to offer their moral support and to draw attention to the current crisis.
‘This mass action offers an important commentary on how important midwives are to families in every single area of the UK and how keenly the current crisis is being felt.
‘The intention of the vigils sits well with AIMS’ own longstanding call to action: as we frequently remind ourselves, it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
‘As we know well in AIMS, raising awareness is the first step towards achieving change.
‘Urgent action is certainly needed to shore up what seems to be a maternity service that is losing staff at a catastrophic rate.
‘The range of issues that have led to the current situation with regard to midwifery staffing have been well-documented.
‘But this is not a new problem. For too long, we have seen poor retention levels in midwifery: this is a service that seems unable to support its own staff, including our precious newly-qualified members of staff, with frequent reports of bullying.
‘In England, this focus of the Better Births Report (2016), and an issue which the ongoing Maternity Transformation Programme has been working to address, with a particular focus on improving leadership within midwifery and the maternity services more generally.
‘AIMS continues to scrutinise the implementation progress of Better Births, in our role as “critical friend” and as a member of the Stakeholder Council.
‘So for AIMS, we remember today that we are in the midst of a Maternity Transformation Programme, which continues.
‘And we thank everyone participating in the vigils – including some of our Members and Volunteers – for reminding us why the work to improve the maternity services is so important. Together, we move forward.’
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