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On behalf of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa, I was honoured to extend my goodwill and congratulations to the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria on the Occasion of the Official Handover Ceremony of Critical Clinical Training Equipment, under the Global Health Workforce Programme (GHWP), delivered in partnership with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and funded by the UK Department of Health and Social Care, managed by Global Health Partnerships (formerly THET) and Ducit Blue Solutions for the benefit of both UK and partner-country health sectors.
In my statement delivered on my behalf by Mr Williams Awotunde, National Program Director of WBFA, I mentioned how I am particularly encouraged, especially in my capacity as a World Economic Forum Champion of the Global Alliance for Women’s Health, and through my leadership of the Global Activators Network for Maternal Health, working to advance health equity, midwifery, and access to medical supplies, that the 2024–2025 extension of our LSTM–WBFA collaboration under the Global Health Workforce Programme, has expanded Advanced Obstetric Surgical Skills training to medical examiners, registrars and resident doctors.
Strengthening both clinical training, evaluation systems, and strategic donation of simulation equipment as a vital investment in Nigeria’s Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (EmONC) capacity, directly reinforce the objectives of the Federal Government’s Maternal and Neonatal Mortality Reduction Innovation and Initiatives (MAMII), which is focused on driving down Nigeria’s maternal mortality ratio through targeted, life-saving interventions in the country’s highest-burden areas.
As the Wellbeing Foundation Africa commemorates its 20th anniversary of operations since 2004 to ensure safer births in Nigeria, we are immensely appreciative of our longstanding partnership with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine’s Centre for Childbirth, Women’s, and Newborn Health and its Emergency Obstetric & Quality of Care Unit, as well as the distinguished 125-year legacy of LSTM as a pioneering academic institution in global health.
I would like to particularly give thanks to Dr Charles Ameh, Professor in Global Health and Head of the Department of International Public Health at LSTM, for his leadership as the programme has trained 82 examiners and 120 resident doctors and established two Centers of Excellence, and integrated the Advanced Obstetric Surgical Skills curriculum into national postgraduate training. With a recently approved costed extension, the initiative has expanded to cover all six geopolitical zones, with plans to train an additional 64 resident doctors.
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