Neonatal Resuscitation Training

This week we have had a team here from the USA to teach the Neonatal Resuscitation.  We have Ike and Gloria Ferguson (short term specialists), who organize the whole project, and we had Dr. Groberg (a brother to the Elder Groberg from the DVD, Another Side of Heaven), Dr. JoAnne ??, (was head of nursing at BYU)  and Heather, who is a nurse.  They have done a great job.

 Monday was a day of training the facilitators who are helping with the training the rest of the week.  

Tuesday and Wednesday was the training for the Doctors and it was a little more intense.  It was interesting because some of them, if not most, did not know about these methods of saving newborns.   Babies are delivered and if they don't breathe they are set aside as 'still births'.  With this training and the equipment that is given to them they will be able to save many many babies.   They will also take the training equipment, that we give them, and go out and train others in their areas. They also receive the tools/instruments to use on the babies.  We hope from this initial training that many more will benefit.   We were a little disappointed that more Doctors did not come but I guess that is usual as they tend to be pretty busy.

Thursday and Friday is the HBB (Help Babies Breathe) training for the nurses and midwives.  We were prepared for 60 participants but quickly  made up packets for 10 more.  That was already stretching the limit so when a few more showed up we had to take their names and phone numbers, etc. and promise that training would be shared with them later.  They did show up quite late too so the training was well under way.   The nurses training will continue tomorrow.  It has all been quite  success really and everyone is pretty happy about it.  The participants are all given certificates at the end if they pass the test.

We give them a morning snack and a big lunch.  Some of these people came from several hours away.  One Dr. traveled for 12 hours to get here.

It's been a good week.   The first 3 photos are of the Doctor's training and the last one is the nurses today.   We are mostly just there to help wherever we are needed.