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
Snapshots
Blog Posts
Established and Expanding
We are writing at the end of what has been a very successful trip even though it was very different from our plans. Our 4 trainings at Mubende Hospital and Mbarara Hospital went very well. We trained nearly 200 nursing leaders and midwives. Much of our training was brand new content and they were very…
Perfect Timing
Dear Supporters and Prayer Warriors of Birth With Dignity, Thank you for praying us to Uganda. We arrived in the wee hours of this morning, safely and with all 450 pounds of supplies and luggage meeting us at the airport and now piled high in our rooms. The significance of this trip has us…
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…