A MALE student who graduated as a midwife from the Pacific Adventist University on Wednesday says he is ready to go and serve his people.
Dominic Peter, 33, from Kaintiba, Gulf, said he came from one of the remotest parts of the province where basic health services were lacking. Peter said among the challenges that were faced in his district was the high infant mortality rate. “In Gulf, we don’t have midwives and I know there’s a big work for me out there. I came to study this course because a lot of mothers and babies die during labour in my area,” he said Peter said there was so much he learned from the university, not only in his area of study but in the acquiring Christian values to help him work with love and passion. He said he would go back to his electorate and help teach mothers how to conduct safe delivery in places where there were no health centres nearby. Director nursing of Kerema General Hospital Monica Abraham, who came to witness Peter’s graduation, said she was so proud and happy to have one of the first midwives in the province. Abraham said Peter would be working with the Kerema hospital because there was a big need for people of his profession in the hospital. “He is our asset and resource. I hope he will be able to reach out to mothers and babies to provide the most needed service,” Abraham said. Abraham said the Kerema General Hospital was in desperate need of more midwives because of the high rate of mothers and babies dying during labour was so high. “We will sponsor more nurses to come and take up midwifery at PAU in the years to come,” she said.
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