Kiwoko Hospital Trains Local Birth Attendants

By Frederick KiwanukaKIWOKO Hospital in Luweero district has trained 49 Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) in the on-going safe motherhood programme.The training is to make up for the deficiency of trained midwives to handle pregnancy cases in Nakaseke county.The last batch of 26 TBAs from Wakyato sub-county, were passed out on Friday by the programme officer, National Population Secretariat, Agnes Kisembo. A total of 23 others had earlier been passed out in Kikamulo sub-county. Each of the trained TBAs was given a bicycle and a delivery kit under the programme which Kiwoko Hospital instituted with the help of the Population Secretariat, UNFPA and the health ministry. Kiwoko Hospital medical superintendent Dr. Nicholas Wooding, in a statement read by his deputy Dr. James Nyonyintono, said the project is to equip TBAs with ways of managing pregnant mothers. Wooding told the community in Wakyato sub-county to go only to TBAs who have been trained and not bicupuli practitioners who learn through mistakes.Ends