UNFPA-trained midwife promotes safe motherhood, save mothers and babies in Alikalia
Alikalia, Koinadugu, Sierra Leone, 29 April 2021 – “Serving a hard to reach community like Alikalia comes with a lot of challenges. The good thing, however, is my contribution in promoting safe motherhood and in reducing maternal mortality which I am proud of as a midwife,” said Regina Conteh, a midwife attached to the Alikalia Community Health Post, Koinadugu district, north of Sierra Leone.
With 717 deaths per 100,000 live births, according to the 2019 Demographic and Health Survey. Sierra Leone is still among countries with the world’s highest maternal mortality ratio.
Midwives remain the basis of UNFPA’s work in achieving the three transformative goals of zero preventable maternal deaths, zero unmet need for family planning, and zero gender-based violence and harmful practices against women and girls.
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Kristina Arnold is an artist and educator living and working in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Her practice combines an undergraduate degree and work in community health with a graduate degree in painting, professional museum / gallery experience, and a life-long dedication to activism. Materializing in two, three and four dimensions, Arnold’s work ranges from pieces that question current societal understandings of health and wellness and suggest alternative paradigms, to producing projects that more specifically direct desired outcomes. An objects and materials lover, her practice includes collecting and cataloging as a method for understanding.
Born and raised in Arlington, Virginia, Arnold received a degree in community health from Brown University. Upon graduation she moved to Nashville to pursue a career in public health, working in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. After five years she returned to her first love, atte
Federal Medical Centre, Ebute Meta commences COVID-19 vaccination
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The COVID-19 vaccination exercise commenced on Friday at the Federal Medical Centre, Ebute Metta, Lagos, as health workers took turn to get the jabs, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
NAN reports that Dr Adedamola Dada, the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, was the first person to receive the vaccine after going through the registration exercise.
Dada shortly after receiving the vaccine told NAN that Nigerians should not be hesitant in receiving the vaccine.
He said that the vaccine which had been certified safe, was a major boost in the fight against coronavirus.
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The Lagos State Federal Medical Centre on Friday commenced the administration of the COVID-19 vaccine as health workers took turns to get the jabs.
Dr Adedamola Dada, the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, was the first person to receive the vaccine after going through the registration exercise.
Dada who spoke to NAN shortly after receiving the vaccine asked Nigerians not to be hesitant in receiving the vaccine.
He said the vaccine which had been certified safe, was a major boost in the fight against coronavirus.
“As you have witnessed, I just received my own vaccine and I want other Nigerians to do so because this is the only major way we can defeat this virus.