This is how it all started~
I have been an NRP instructor since about 1991. I visited Uganda on a mission with Duke Neurosurgery last year and was permitted to observe in the Labour Ward at Kampala's Mulago Hospital. I witnessed a failure to recognize and intervene appropriately when babies did not attempt to breathe at delivery. I demonstrated basic dry and stim and a few stimulation techniques and worked briefly with the British OB on a proposal she wrote to make NRP mandatory for all midwives. 2 weeks after I left Uganda, very basic NRP was taught and they certified 102 midwives. I used this experience as my intervention for my presentation in my community assessment class in midwifery school. During this past year, some of my student midwifery classmates conducted a baby blanket drive and collected ~ 4,000 baby blankets so that the Ugandan midwives had a blanket to dry and stimulate the newborns. Also donated were an otoscope, 2 cases of bulb bx and several ambu bags and much more in labour ward and neonatal supplies. I need money for shipping via DHL when our mission returns July 21, 2010. We ship in 2 days. I am making a plea for donations. I need to raise about 3,800 more to pay for the shipping. Would you be interested in viewing my powerpoint presentation or allowing me to come show you the conditions at this facility? Please help me provide one more piece of support for them. This is our last year and this facility and I have all the supplies ready to ship. Please consider meeting with me. Thank you.
Pamela Borden, RNC, RLC, IBCLC, CNIV
Student Nurse Midwife
Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing
Pamela.Borden@DUKE.edu
Pam,
ReplyDeleteI am sitting at RDU awaiting our departure to Miami and thn unto Guayaquil, Ecuador. I just learned that there has been a change in the original plan for our medical team. In the last few months, a new shanti town has erupted in the outskirts of the city and hundreds of people-including babies and children- are w/o medical care because this population is considered "illegal" and thus prevented from receiving any type of goverment aid. This is where I might be serving next week. I am so excited about the work ahead! Thanks again for your help in securing supplies before my departure.
May God bless you mightily as you keep preparing for your trip.
Love,
Maria
p.s. Great blogspot!!!