Advanced Care Training for Ugandan Midwives
Equipping midwives of Uganda to decrease maternal and newborn death and care for families with a stillbirth or perinatal loss
Uganda’s Mothers and Babies are Dying
In 2022, Uganda’s Mother Mortality Rate was 10x greater than the US.
Mothers usually die from postpartum hemorrhage as well as preeclampsia/eclampsia and infection. The factors are many, but one is a lack of knowledge by the care providers in dealing with high risk perinatal care.
We are also burdened by the lack of perinatal bereavement care that families receive after a stillbirth.
Saving Lives With Medical Training, and Healing Hearts With Care After Loss
Since 2017, Birth With Dignity has been teaming up with Mbale Regional Referral Hospital and more recently St. Francis Nsambya Hospital in Uganda.
We’re working hand-in-hand to improve high-risk maternal and neonatal care, and to enhance perinatal bereavement support.
Our dedicated midwife teams, bolstered by our local leaders, are doing some fantastic work and we couldn’t be prouder. Beyond our hospital partnerships, we’re making waves with training sessions and educational events, sharing our knowledge with midwives and health leaders. Our goal is simple but vital: equip healthcare providers in Uganda to handle every birth with knowledge, excellent nursing care, compassion, and, of course, dignity.
Connecting and Educating is Making a Difference!
Before we used to have a lot of deaths, we lacked knowledge… I am really working hand in hand with the midwives to make sure that Birth with Dignity proceeds very well, and it spreads throughout the whole country.”
Magdalene
Senior Principal Nursing Officer,
Mbale Regional Referral Hospital.
I am so blessed that I held my baby because my family did not want me to know that the baby had died and they wanted to hide it, thank you nurse for helping me be with my baby.”
Ugandan mother of a stillborn baby
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Blog Posts
No More Boxes
When I first came to Uganda 15 years ago, I was touring Mulago Hospital, the major hospital in Uganda. It is now called Kawempe and they deliver up to 100 babies a day, yes, a day! I asked the midwife how they handled the babies who died. She took me behind a counter in the…
Progress and Persistence
I hope you are all well and enjoying the beginning of 2025. They are still saying Happy New Year here, so I say it again to you! Sue and I have decided that I will do an update on the subject matter I teach to the Ugandan midwives today, and Sue will do an email…
Returning with Purpose
It is hard to believe it is already 2025. As you probably ask regarding your own lives, where did the last year go? We hope the new year finds you and your loved ones well. Sue and I are ready to get to Uganda and start teaching again. Here are the highlights as we…