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]]>The World Health Assembly is the body that is in charge of making the decisions pertaining to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The body has 194 member states who help in the governance of WHO.
As a part of the general committee, Zimbabwe will share in the following responsibilities:
This announcement follows after Zimbabwe was first in SADC in this WHO list we shared here.
The recognition here was not the first time the nation was recognised by the World Health Organisation. Upon launching the Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV) this month, Zimbabwe received praise from WHO. This is because it became the third country in the world to make the TCV vaccination a part of its routine vaccination programme. Maybe these are some of the milestones that were considered before giving Zimbabwe a place in the committee.
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]]>The world celebrated International Midwives Day on the 6th of May and on this day the statistics on Zimbabwe’s midwives were released. A severe shortage of midwives in Zimbabwe was reported, leaving the nation in a search of these skills abroad.
However, Zimbabwe is not the only country to be facing this problem as a report revealed that globally there is a shortage of approximately 900 000 midwives.
The 2021 State of World’s Midwifery report by UNFPA (the UN sexual and reproductive health agency), WHO (World Health Organization attributed the some of the increase in preventable deaths toll to this shortage.
Speaking in regards to this shortage and encourage world to invest in midwives, UNFPA Executive Director, Dr Natalia Kanem shared the following sentiments:
“A capable, well-trained midwife can have an enormous impact on childbearing women and their families – an impact often passed on from one generation to the next. At UNFPA, we have spent more than a decade strengthening education, enhancing working
conditions and supporting leadership roles for the midwifery profession. We have seen that these efforts work, but they need greater investment”
Emmanuel Mhlangu, President of Zimbabwe Confederation of Midwives commented particular with regards to Zimbabwe’s situation saying,
“The global need for nurses has depleted our staff. These experts for normal deliveries are sadly migrating to other countries where they will only be operating as general nurses. This is because here, we do not recognise their role and out of frustration, many answered to global calls for nursing vacancies and now we have a shortage.”
He called upon government and local authorities to invest in the training of more midwives to combat this shortage.
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