Refresher Workshops in Phaplu

On May 12th we held a two-hour workshop for the ANM students at Phaplu hospital. We taught through role-playing clinical and counselling skills. First we demonstrated slow delivery of the head, active management of third stage of labour, skin-to-skin, and delayed cord clamping. The second role-play was to show how to educate mothers in the antenatal period about breastfeeding and proper latch in the postpartum. This was considered important to teach as it is common for first time mothers to experience breast abscess’s here in Nepal. Jenny brought out her brilliant tips and tricks for teaching breastfeeding.

The second day we provided a similar two hour workshop to the staff nurses at Phaplu hospital. When we asked the head nurse what topic we should focus on, she requested PPH and uterine inversion. The hospital recently had a case of uterine inversion resulting in maternal death. The nurses were keen to learn how to prevent and manage a similar situation in the future.

Our time in Phaplu has been short because of us being sick in Kathmandu and the time in which it takes to travel here. We wish we could spend more time getting to know the students, nurses and doctors. We have so many ideas and hope we can make plans for future work in the Solokhumbu region!