The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and the University for Development Studies will from next year start the Bachelor’s degree in midwifery.
The programme, which will commence in June 2010, forms part of the government’s drive to increase the number of health training institutions in the country to turnout more staff for the sector.
Speaking at the seventh Biennial meeting of the Ghana Registered Midwives Association (GRMA), the Minister of Health, Dr George Sipa-Adjah Yankey, said the ministry was also working on a diploma programme at the University of Ghana for midwives.
He said the government placed premium on human resource development to enhance national growth.
He said the role of midwives was very important to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals 4, 5 and 6 before the end of the year 2015.
He said the ministry was doing everything to ensure that pregnant women queuing to receive medical attention became a thing of the past.
“I was personally at Korle-Bu Teaching and Ridge hospitals to witness women waiting for their turn to be delivered of their babies and were being judged on the basis of who had ever had a child,” he said.
Dr Yankey said that should not be said of a country trying to eliminate infant and maternal mortality during and after child birth.
He said plans were far advanced to ensure that private health facilities were accredited under the National Health Insurance Scheme.
The minister called on midwives to upgrade themselves by adopting modern technologies.
For her part, the president of the Ghana Registered Midwives Association, Mrs Ernestina Djokoto, welcomed the plan to introduce the programme for upgrading themselves.
She said as part of the quest of the world to eliminate problems associated with childbirth, special focus was directed at the global shortage of midwives.
She said to achieve MDGs 4, 5, and 6 it would require global attention and deemed it appropriate for the introduction of midwifery programmes at the three universities in the country.
The president of the association said it was important that they paid special attention to the development of midwives since they provided about 71 per cent of antenatal care and handled 41 per cent of deliveries in the country.
She said the main goal of the association was to advance the provision of quality maternal and new-born care service delivery to ensure that midwives provided adequate professional services in order to save the lives of mothers and their babies across the country.
Mrs Djokoto used the opportunity to appeal to members of the association to put service first and work together as a team for mother Ghana.
8 comments:
my name is john..please am a male,i will like to know weda it is wise for me to offer midwifery course....
hello my name is john, i want to know weda i can divert my midwifery course at knust after completing..thank u
Midwifery in Ghana now is an all female course. There have not been any male intake yet but taking nursing instead of midwifery would be the much wiser choice. If they took males it wud hv been gud enuf but they don't so substitute it wid nusrsing as male nursing populations are growing.
bernice said...
i offered agricultural science and my electives were e-maths, chemistry, animal husbandry and general agriculture, i want to be a midwife please can i pursue a degree in midwifery in any university with my 2011 WASSCE results with a total agreggate of 11?
Pls my response
Please I was asking that,do they accept home economics students or only science students and would want to know the cut off points.
Please am a diplomate of midwifery and want to pursue a degree course. When can I apply and what are required of me?
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