MIDSON

Last week we met with Kiran the president of MIDSON, The Midwives Association of Nepal. We were welcomed very warmly. She showed us a presentation of midwifery in Nepal and asked us to help them draft an midwifery advocacy presentation that they will take to all of the stakeholders when working to implement midwifery services throughout Nepal.

They are also interested in creating midwifery-led group antenatal care here in Kathmandu so we are creating an information package for them. When we get back from Baglung we will meet with them again and present our package and role play a group antenatal visit for them.

They are working very hard to get midwifery education up to ICM standards in Nepal. Additionally the are working to create a plan for the implementation of midwife-led birth centres in more communities.

On the whiteboard we saw the list of committees for International Day of the Midwife on May 5th.