Blog - In 2016, Dr. Oluwakemisola Agoyi and Dr. Roland Ojo witnessed the benefits and drawbacks of traditional and community-based birth attendants (TBAs and CBAs) in delivering infants in rural and urban communities across Nigeria.
percent of births in rural areas were assisted by a skilled healthcare provider, leaving just under three in every five women, giving birth with the assistance of unskilled traditional birth attendants , community-based birth attendants and other alternative healthcare providers.For Dr. Agoyi and Dr. Ojo, their 2016 community immersion experience helped them understand how entrenched and integral TBAs are in underserved communities in Nigeria.
In states like Lagos where there is an established traditional medicine board, SHI partners with these existing bodies to conduct free trainings for TBAs. Professor Adebukunola Adefule-Ositelu, former Chairman of Lagos State Traditional Medicine Board shared that aside from the trainings that SHI carries out for TBAs in the State, LSTMB also makes TBAs who are registered with the LSTMB undergo mandatory trainings and immersion courses at PHCs.
"Most of the time we train them on new knowledge, how to prevent the 5 core causes of maternal mortality, referral systems and their attitude towards referring patients because they feel like if they refer their patients to the hospital, they will lose their clients to the hospital,"Maria Bamgbaiye, 56, who has been a practicing CBA in Lagos State for 23 years said the training she receives from SHI acts as refresher courses and keeps her up to date with new systems and knowledge...
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