Monday: Our First Training Course Begins

Today our first Neonatal Resuscitation course began. Thirty-two obstetricians, midwives, and nurses are in the course. They come from a variety of provinces around Mongolia. There are two representatives from each hospital. Some of the hospitals where they work have as few as 40 deliveries per month, but some in the capital have as many as 900 deliveries per month. When we added up all the deliveries for all the hospitals represented, it totaled 3455 per month or 41,460 per year. That means that the potential impact of the course may extend to hospitals where up to 2/3 of all deliveries in the country occur since there are about 60,000 births in the country each year. Our goal is to get each of these providers to train all the providers in their own hospitals within the next few weeks. Each team will receive a supply of training kits and manuals to take back to their facilities. The second course later this week will include providers from some of other provinces in the country.