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Article Date: 03 may 2012-0: 00 PDT
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Plan to support newly graduates, unemployed and retired midwives to work in rural areas of Nigeria and provide care essential obstetrical contributed to improve kindergarten, infant and child health and could potentially serve as a model for other countries with low incomes. This includes helping them to redistribute health workforce in low income countries to reduce inequalities in health between urban and rural areas.
A health section of Action in PLoS Medicine this week, a group of researchers Nigerians from the development agency National Primary health care in Abuja and the Federal Ministry of health, describe the regime of midwifery services in which the midwives are displayed for a year for some primary health care of the installations in hard to reach areas or populations not well served with the capability to provide basic essential obstetric care related to a secondary health care facility that is capable of providing emergency obstetric care full.
The authors state: "[midwifery services plan] strategy of the Government of Nigeria recognizes that strategically redistribution and improvement of all of the skills of the existing frameworks of the health workers are feasible on a large scale."
After a year of regime, there was improved unevenly in maternal, newborn and child indices of health in six geo-political zones of Nigeria and the major challenges to continue the regime, such as retention, availability and training of midwives and different levels of commitment of the State and of Governments of Nigeria - they are expected to overcome these challenges and develop the economy.
The authors state: "the initiative potentially is model for other developing countries within and outside sub-Saharan Africa who might need to redistribute their health personnel to reduce inequalities that exist between geographical areas and between urban and rural areas."
Article adapted by Medical News Today news release original. Click on "References" tab over the source.Visit our nurse / midwife section for the latest news on this subject. Does funding: no specific funding has been received for the writing of the manuscript.
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Citation: Abimbola S, U Okoli, Olubajo O, Abdullahi MJ, Pate MA (2012), the Service of midwives scheme in Nigeria. PLoS Med 9 (5): e1001211. DOI: 10. 1371 / journal.PMED.1001211
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