Uganda: Health Ministry Stops Hiring Male As Midwives

The Ministry of Health has actually stopped the recruitment of male extensive nurses as midwives at district level on premises that it protests medical practices.

Some district service commissions in the nation had actually begun recruitment of thorough nurses, consisting of males, to work as midwives.

In a September 6 letter, Dr Diana Atwine, the long-term secretary of the Ministry of Health, stated they held an inter-ministerial committee conference that solved to stop such recruitment.

” This is undesirable and need to stop forthwith due to the fact that it contravenes expert medical practice in the nation.

Those currently hired need to be re-designated right away to positions that fit their certifications and experience,” Dr Atwine stated.

Dr Atwine asked for the irreversible secretary in the Ministry of Local Government to make sure the accounting officers at the district level abide by the regulations.

According to the Ministry of Health instruction, the female thorough nurses, who wish to be hired as midwives, will likewise be impacted.

” The function of this circular, for that reason, is to direct you to stop hiring detailed nurses to work as midwives with instant result,” she composed.

The Nurses and Midwives Act Statutory Instrument 274– 1 explains a qualified midwife as woman.

The law suggests that “an individual will be entitled to be enroled as a certificated midwife – when it comes to an individual currently enroled as a licensed nurse – if she passes the midwifery last evaluation, taken after the conclusion of a training duration of not less than 12 months.”

Mr Emmanuel Ainebyoona, the representative of the Ministry of Health, stated there is a procedure of phasing out extensive nursing due to the fact that there is requirement to have health employees who either specialise in nursing or midwifery.

” We are now moving towards enhancing nursing care, which needs individuals to be grounded in useful nursing work. What we saw is that thorough nurses enjoy administration and a few of them require to get additional skilling either to end up being midwives or enroled nurses,” Mr Ainebyoona stated.

Mr Ainebyoona stated the procedure of phasing out extensive nurses will be steady.

The detailed nurses have actually been operating at health centers at parish level.