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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
As part of the press release we are told that there is a global shortage of qualified midwives.
To use the press releases own words "the report unveils new data confirming there is a significant gap between the number of midwives practising and those needed to save lives".
Unless we fund the training of another 112,000 midwives then 38 countries might fail to meet their 2015 Millennium Development Goal targets of having 95% of births covered by skilled attendants.
What is the UK doing?
A lot it seems. We're supporting Ethiopia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and India among others, providing training and resources and so on.
"with support from the UK and other donors, more than 34,000 health workers have been trained and deployed across Ethiopia" we're proudly told.
Meanwhile, NHS bosses at home are warning of a midwife shortage, with NHS Chief Executive David Nicholson saying in January of this year that the UK was facing a shortfall of 4,500 full time midwives.
You really couldn't make it up. Shortages at home and nothing is done about it, we're too busy providing midwives for the rest of the planet to worry about those needed by our own country.
DFiD - http://www.dfid.gov.uk/Media-Room/News-Stories/2011/State-of-the-Worlds-Midwives/
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