This #FrontlineFriday, I especially commend and appreciate the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine’s EmOC&QoC Unit of LSTM Nigeria, our 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, as we commenced and completed the first cohort of Advanced Obstetric and Surgical Skills training for National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria faculty examiners of resident doctors in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Centre of Excellence, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, on 3rd to 7th May 2024.

The training course and equipment provided through the EmOC&QoC Unit of LSTM, supported by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (Nigeria Liaison Group), has now completed training the first cohort of 30 lead doctor faculty members from various hospitals across Nigeria, as trainers at the CoE in Lagos for continuity and sustainability, strengthening life-saving skills and interventions for care of pregnant women and their newborn babies. The training is key to improving maternal, newborn and child health outcomes by empowering medical professionals with advanced skills and knowledge, having significant influence on the development of obstetricians across Nigeria.

This Global Health Workforce Programme #GHWP 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 with the ambition of establishing two Centres of Excellence in Northern and Southern Nigeria where the training course will be delivered, to achieve more resilient health systems for post-pandemic recovery and support progress toward Universal Health Coverage #UHC, and for the benefit of the UK and partner country health sectors.

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