Srinagar, Nov 17: National Health Mission (NHM) Jammu and Kashmir organises 2 days Capacity building workshop on Midwifery Initiative in Collaboration with PGIMER Chandigarh, UNFPA New Delhi and AIIMS Bhatinda.
A two-day capacity building workshop was kick started at SKIMS, Soura, which is being jointly organised conducted by PGIMER Chandigarh, UNFPA New Delhi and National Health Mission Jammu.
Under this Government of India initiative, the Government of India aims to reduce unnecessary intervention during childbirth, reduce the caesarean rate, and balance the burden on doctors. A new Cadre of Nurse practitioners’midwives is created to support the women throughout their pregnancy childbirth and postpartum stage.
The midwives are going to be trained for 18 months as per the international confederation of Midwives (ICM) standards at National Midwifery training Institutes (NMTI). The NPMs will run a full fledge ANC clinic, a midwifery led labour room and postpartum clinic in the high case load facilities. In the MLCU, they will manage normal, uncomplicated deliveries and collaborate with the obstetrician to manage complications.
Dr Qazi Haroon State Programme Manager NHM J&K Incharge Maternal Health provided an overview of the Midwifery Initiative.
The workshop was inaugurated by Ms. Ayushi Sudan, Mission Director, NHM, J&K. She highlighted when the midwives are trained to ICM standards they are going to be an asset to the health system. This is by far the most structured approach for checking the ever-growing C- section rate in the hospitals across India.
Dr.ParvaizKoul, Director SKIMS, Srinagar, mentioned that they extend full support to this initiative and welcomes PGIMER and UNFPA faculty for the two days’ workshop. He also highlighted that it is an great opportunity to promote Natural births and reduce the burden of C- sections.
Dr Irfan Rabbani Principal Skims medical College Bemina said that it’s a great initiative and new Cadre of midwifes will be an asset to the Health department.
Several Technical experts like Dr.MinakshiRohilla, Professor of OBGYN, PGIMER Chandigarh, Dr.Kiranjit Kaur, Project Manager at PGIMER Chandigarh, &Dr. Madhur Verma Assistant Pofessor, AIIMS Bathinda joined the workshop from PGIMER Chandigarh, UNFPA & AIIMS Bhatinda.
The participants were later divided into groups and group exercises on improving the adherence to evidence based standard clinical practices in the hospitals and several relationship buildings were conducted.
A total of 60 faculty, including HODs Gynae & obs. LD Hospital, HOD Obs& Gynae SKIMS MC, HOD Gynae Trust Hospital Soura, Deputy Director Health Services Kashmir, Principal SKIMS Nursing College, Medical Superintendent SKIMS Soura, Representative from NIPI, Gynaecologists, /Medical Officers/ Nurses/Tutors from Directorate of Health services Sgr SKIMS Soura, GMC Srinagar, Nursing college SKIMS attended the workshop.
