Midwifery-Led Centre Planning Workshop
Kamuzu University of Health Science (KUHeS), School of Maternal, Neonatal and Reproductive Health (SMANER) held a Midwifery Centre Evidence-Based Planning Workshop meeting on 18th June 2024 at Blantyre Kameza campus. The purpose of the meeting was to share views and discuss ideas regarding the proposed Midwifery-Led Center at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH). The Midwifery-Led Center at QECH is a bigger concept of a maternity care unit with its own proper infrastructure and to be led by midwives. The Centre will be used to promote midwife practice and clinical education.
The meeting was facilitated by Professor Chris Harnish, an architect from Thomas Jefferson University in the United States of America specialising in humanitarian architecture in Malawi and South Africa and Ms. Linda Robinson, a midwife and a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation that is supporting SMANER. Those in attendance included staff from KUHeS SMANER and QECH maternity department and KUHeS students.
The ideas from the meeting would not only assist in coming up with an architectural design that would create a more effective Midwifery-Led Centre but also a proposal for soliciting funds for the project.
