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A half day in the life of Angela Kearney, currently working in Mozambique

Abstract:

...Leaving the house by 5.10am the guard gives me a rather one eyed look wondering where I could be going in the dark and alone... I'm off to do a visit to the small town of Murrua in the district of Ile, Zambezia Province... I'm especially interested in the role of the Traditional Birth Attendant within the society and hope to meet with some of these women in Murrua to talk with them, to learn a little of their customs, attitudes and practices to birth...This fits into the job I do as co-ordinator for the training of TBAs in Zambezia. The Ministry of Health in Mozambique has a policy on training these women in basic hygiene and care of a mother giving birth and her newborn baby with the objective of reducing the very high infant mortality rate.

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international midwifery, maternity care in developing countries, Mozambique, rural midwifery