The Eastern Regional Chairperson of Midwives Group, Kathelyn Yaa Nyassigbe has said, many midwives don’t want to go and work at the remote areas because they encounter a lot of challenges over there.
She adds, gov’t is doing everything possible to push more midwives to the hard to reach areas to help the pregnant women in those villages to deliver peacefully, but that is not enough.
Mrs. Yaa Nyassingbe explained, sometimes working at the remote areas is very difficult. But when there is incentives and good social amenities available to them, it motive them to work hard.
Mrs. Kathelyn Yaa Nyassingbe told Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH when celebrating their 2022 International Midwives’ Day on a theme: dubbed ” MIDWIVES, A VOICE TO LEAD IN THE MIDST OF CHALLENGES OF THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM”.
She stressed, nobody would like to work under poor condition of service and expected that person to deliver. She then urged the gov’t to come to their aid because they are really suffering.
She further revealed that, the Ghanaian midwives are doing so excellently well but their salaries is too small
Mrs. Nyassingbe adds, when someone is working from the bottom of his or her heart to safe two people’s live [mother and baby] and in the end their salaries is not enough, it demoralized the them.
Mrs. Kathelyn Nyassingbe then appealed to the gov’t to do something about the salaries of midwives.
In addition, Rev. Hayford Laryea, the Eastern Regional Chairman for Ghana Registered Nurses And Midwives Association also congratulate the midwives across Ghana for their hardwork.
He said, there is a lot of challenges confronting midwives especially those who work at the remote areas.
Rev. Laryea adds, because of those who work at the remote areas don’t have time to go for fresher programmes, they ceased the opportunity to give them training on how to monitor and take good care of the pregnant women till they delivered.
Source// Obohnews.
By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.
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