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Last week, I was delighted to visit the Lagos University Teaching Hospital EmONC Centre of Excellence, and address our training participants, as the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine’s EmOC&QoC Unit of LSTM Nigeria, our Wellbeing Foundation Africa Lead Partner in the Advanced Emergency Obstetrics and Newborn Care Competency-Based Curriculum for Resident Doctors in Obstetrics and Gynaecology program at the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, commenced and completed the second cohort of Advanced Obstetric and Surgical Skills training for National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria faculty examiners of resident doctors in Obstetrics and gynaecology.
Launched in February 2024, this project is the latest milestone in our shared goal of deploying highly effective advanced level training to improve maternal and child healthcare outcomes across Nigeria, responding to Nigeria’s high maternal and neonatal mortality rates; as the 2023 United Nations report on Trends in Maternal Mortality from 2000-2020 revealed that nearly 28.5% of global maternal deaths happen in Nigeria, and further stated that a woman in Nigeria has a 1 in 19 lifetime risk of dying during pregnancy, childbirth, or postpartum.
The advanced training course and equipment provided by the EmOC&QoC Unit of LSTM, supported by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (Nigeria Liaison Group), trained this 2nd cohort 24 faculty-examiner doctors from across Nigeria including examiner-level members of the Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria and Armed Forces Medical Corps, delivered by 4 facilitators from Nigeria and 4 facilitators from the UK, whom I thanked as they proceed to start trainings in Abuja this week.
This Global Health Workforce Programme Project Partnership is funded by the UK Department of Health and Social Care and managed by the Tropical Health and Education Trust and Ducit Blue Solutions, to achieve more resilient health systems and support progress toward Universal Health Coverage.
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