Nine midwives honoured on International Women’s Day

Mar 09, 2013 News

Nine midwives attached to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) were yesterday honoured by officials at the facility after they were successful at a neonatal resuscitation training course supported by overseas-based Guyanese.
The neonatal resuscitation programme is designed to teach individuals (medical health care professionals) how to safely and successfully perform resuscitation on neonates—the newborn.

The awardees and representatives at GPHC

Those honoured were Elizabeth Ann Hughes, Correlle Miggins, Cindyann Hutson, Peggy Samuels, Dothlyn Richmond-Trotman, Delma Greenidge, Melissa Gittens, Shivani Ramdihol and Deya Vancoole.
The awardees, who work in the birthing room and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, received their badges from GPHC officials yesterday during a presentation ceremony held at the facility’s Resource Centre.
Speaking at the gathering was Matron Audrey Corry, Director of Nursing Services. She said neonatal resuscitation has to do with ensuring that an infant at birth has every chance to survive and able to do well.
“Breathing is necessary for life and an infant has to breathe. Many infants when they are born don’t breathe spontaneously and therefore have to be assisted with that breathing to start and here is where the importance of neonatal resuscitation comes in,” Corry noted.
The Director of Nursing Services added, “When people are trained and they can identify the reason for an infant not breathing, they would know how to intervene, respond and are able to get babies breathing quickly so that there are no complication in the future.”
The acting Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Sheik Amir, noted that some infants don’t breathe at birth. “Breathing is important because it is the only way oxygen will reach your brain, so the importance here is to diminish the time it takes from birth to breathe and the faster you can achieve that, the better the outcome for the child.”
The CEO (ag) congratulated the midwives on their success.