A most important project in the Solomon Islands is saving the lives of mothers, babies and midwives supported by the Bairnsdale and district community.
Nancy Pego RCHD MHMS in collaboration with National Referral Hospital team in Honiara in the Solomon Islands is coordinating the distribution of 113 birthing kits and Red Cross teddies to women and children across the 10 Provinces of the Solomon Islands as a pilot project.
“These birthing kits will support nurses at the facility level to top-up their delivery kits which we sometimes have challenges to, when it comes to mothers giving birth and needed most,” Nancy said.
Nancy is enthusiastic about this opportunity to empower the women in the most remote communities as the maternal and child health mortality and morbidity is high, especially in the Guadalcanal, Western and Malaita Provinces that is most populous. She will work closely with the National and Provincial RCH coordinators, faith-based organisations and their communities to make this happen and support and ongoing commitment to providing kits.
Nancy also stressed the most important key message is that mothers are encouraged to deliver at the health facility where they can be attended to by a skilled birth attendant using safe delivery kits to prevent infection to the mother and baby.
For more information about a guest speaker to provide information about the Birthing Kit Foundation of Australia and this specific project contact Wendy Flahive.
