Duration: 28.05.2012 to 30.05.12

Participants: Kutubdia Upazila Birth Attendant

Location: Ghono Shastho Kendro, Cox's Bazar

Bangladesh is one of the most over crowed country in the world. Maternal mortality and child mortality are crucial reasons behind that. 80% people are living in the rural area. They don’t even get the proper health facilities. They prefer birth attendant in birth attendance period rather than go to government hospitals or community clinics. It is woeful but true that the process of birth attendance they followed is unscientific and very risky for both the pregnant women and the new born baby. It increases the risk of both maternal mortality and child mortality.  So it is essential to skill the birth attendant and encourages them to follow the scientific way when they involve in birth attendance process.  To ensure proper health facilities to the pregnant women and also ensure a good health of the new born babies which ultimately decline the rate of maternal mortality and child mortality.

BDPC had arranged TBA training with the support of MJF to make the traditional birth attendant more skilled and efficient as they can be able to give proper health services and ensuring good health of both mother and new born child.  TBA training was holding on 28 May to 30 May 2012. Main objectives of the TBA training are- i) declining maternal and child mortality and ii) ensuring the easy access in health service. Mr. Saiful Islam Sishir, executive director of Ghana Shasto Kendro and Mr. Bidhan Kanti Rudro, Upazila Family Planning Officer of Upazila Family Planning Office at kutubdia were invited as guests. Mr. Saiful Islam Sishir, executive director of Ghana Shasto Kendro was inaugurated the training program at 10am.The inauguration program was facilitated by Mr. Shuvashis Chandra Mahanta, Project Coordinator of RRDPRG project, BDPC. The training was conducted by two outstanding female trainers – Ms. Shiriya Khanom and Ms. Anowara Begum Lucky who are working as a trainer in Ghana Shasto Kendro at Savar. In three days training they teach many important issues and gave some knowledge by using some models. The training session includes –human body, normal delivery, anomalous delivery, adolescence period, five symptoms of risk period, detection of the emergency situation, scientific and safe way of birth attendance, bad consequences of early marriage, superstitious of the local people etc. The whole training was participatory. Every participants asked questions and shared their difficulties in birth attendance process and also share their expectation from training. Birth attendants who took the training ensure that from now they will follow the proper and scientific way at birth attendance process. They referred the patients in health complex when they see any dangerous symptoms. They give word that they will not expect anything from the patient’s or her relatives for delivering the proper services.

The ending but lucrative episode is the certificate distribution ceremony. Dr. Md. Boktier Alam, Upazila Health and Family Planning Officer of Kutubdia Health Complex and Mr. Bidhan Kanti Rudro, Upazila Family Planning Officer of Upazila Family Planning Office at kutubdia are invited as guests of certificate distribution ceremony gave their speeches and aware the birth attended. They specially gave thanks to BDPC and MJF for arranging and supporting such a training program. Then our chief guest and special guest distribute the kit box and certificate to the participants. At the end of the program Mr. Shuvashis Chandra Mahanta, Project Coordinator of RRDPRG project, BDPC gave thanks to the participants for attaining the training attentively and specially Mr. Arif Hossain Khan, program manager of MJF for supporting the training program.