PESHAWAR: A capacity-building training workshop for Fata community midwives concluded here on Monday.

Titled `technical skill refresher and entrepreneurship training for community midwives`, it was organised by Maternal and Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH), Fata, in collaboration with the Integrated Health Service, and Technical Resource Facility.

Hundred community midwives belonging to various Fata agencies were imparted training in ensuring safe deliveries, and tackling pre and post-delivery complications, and controlling infection among the new-born and mothers.

The women participants thanked the MNCH programme for educating them about various methods for ensuring safe delivery and preventing complications during delivery.

On the occasion, Sohail Ahmad, provincial nutrition coordinator, MNCH programme, said that the workshop was designed to ensure safe delivery and control the increasing mortality and morbidity during deliveries.

He said that many mothers and infants died due to untrained and unskilled midwives in the tribal regions, and expressed the hope that the training programme would help create awareness among the local midwives to control the prevailing high rate of maternal mortality in Fata.

Earlier, Ms Shabnam and Sareer Khan, the resource persons, urged the participants to apply the techniques and other valuable information they learned during the training sessions.

They said that the MNCH programme would conduct more training sessions for community midwives to control not only growing mortality and morbidity in Fata, but also meet international obligations regarding mother and child healthcare by 2015 end.

At the end, certificates were distributed to the participants.-BureauReport