Hospital Midwife Education:
NAC and Nangarhar Institute of Health Sciences (IHS) have worked together for the past ten years to train and educate midwives in Afghanistan. IHS is located in Jalalabad, the capital city of Nangarhar province. During the fourth quarter of 2011 IHS graduated 26 new hospital midwives with the economical support of Fokus, Norway. Several government officials were attending the ceremony and mentioned their appreciation for Fokus/NAC during their speeches.
Through the financial and technical support from Fokus/NAC the IHS in Jalalabad has successfully graduated 307 midwives since 2002 which is more than 10 % of the total number of graduated midwives registered with the Ministry of Public Health in Afghanistan. After graduation these educated and trained women go back to their homes and communities to work in local hospitals and clinics where they can save lives through providing women and their babies with professional health care. 22 midwives just passed their second semester and will continue their studies in 2012.
Community Midwife Education:
NAC currently implements a Community Midwife Education project in Maidan Shahr, the capital of Wardak Province. The school is financially supported by the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan and currently has two classes with 25 students in each class. Every student should pass 3 terms and the duration of each term is 8 months. The students of both third and first class continued their theoretical and practical work on anatomic modules in school and on patients in two health facilities: Maidan Shahr Provincial Hospital (PH) and Ghazi Mohammad Jan Khan District Hospital (DH) during 2012.
