Midwives deliver in Banda Aceh one year after tsunami:
A video report from Banda Aceh, Indonesia
20 December 2005
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Background
One year after the South Asia tsunami, a new group of entrepreneurs is
flourishing in Banda Aceh, Indonesia—the midwives or bidans who provide most of the health
care services to women and their families. Jhpiego, an affiliate of The Johns Hopkins University,
has been working with the midwives to reestablish their practices and their clinics, in
addition to rebuilding hospitals, health care centers and midwifery schools. With Jhpiego's
President and CEO Leslie Mancuso, we meet Erni Munir, a midwife who lost her husband,
three daughters, her home and her clinic in the tsunami. One year later, she has delivered
149 babies and is building a new and improved clinic for her expanding business.
Jhpiego and the Indonesian Midwives Association have compiled statistics on
the midwives in the region: 107 midwives killed, 157 still missing. The other categories in
the survey are chilling: the number of midwives who lost a spouse, children, relatives,
their home or their clinic. Despite all of this, the midwives have continued to deliver
babies and critical health care services to the women and families in refugee camps and
the devastated city.
For more information, see the related print news release.
To view the video report from Banda Aceh, including an inside look at the
new and improved midwifery training facilities, hospitals and health clinics and the midwives
who work there, click on the link below.
Video News Release
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A written transcript of the video news release is also available.
It includes information on additional B-roll and extended soundbites that are
available through our media contact.
Speakers in Order of Appearance
- Anne Hyre, Senior Midwife Advisor, Jhpiego
- Leslie Mancuso, President and CEO, Jhpiego
About Jhpiego
For 35 years, Jhpiego, (pronounced "ja-pie-go"), has empowered front-line health
workers by designing and implementing simple, low-cost, hands-on solutions that
strengthen the delivery of health care services, following the
household-to-hospital continuum of care. We partner with community- to
national-level organizations to build sustainable, local capacity through
advocacy, policy and guidelines development, and quality and performance
improvement approaches.
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