By Alex Byakatonda
apearlnews.com
Angella Arineitwe, a midwife at Butanda health center III in Butanda
Sub County of Kabale district, is today set to receive her accolades
after being selected Ministry of Health through the National Midwives
Association of Uganda-NMAU, for her distinguished service in maternal
health services.
According to the Acting Kabale Health officer, Alfred Besigensi,
Arineitwe has been serving at the same facility for the last 10 years.
Besigensi says that Arineitwe through community sensitization has
helped to increase the number of mothers delivering at the health
facility from 8 to over 20 mothers monthly.
He adds that because of Arineitwe’s hard work, the ministry in 2017,
the Ministry of Health selected her to go and study a diploma in
Midwifery by Amref Health Africa and changed the health centre from
category 4 to category 1. Her hard work by encouraging skill birth
attendance, led to the creation of two other outreach sites in Bugoto
and Kabutuku.
Arineitwe says that when she was posted at Butanda HCIII, she found
when mothers were not delivering in health facilities, which prompted
her to do community mobilization, by encouraging expectant mothers to
seek health services, attend Antenatal care visits and also to deliver
from the health facility, since she assured them of the availability
of Maternal health services.
Arineitwe recounts how she delivered a retained twin, whom the
traditional birth attendant had suspected to be a retained placenta.
The Assistant District Health officer in Charge of Child and Maternal
Heath, Paddy Mwesigye, says that Arineitwe, who was yesterday taken
through orientation at the Ministry of Health offices, will today
receive her Awards at Parliament, by the Parliament’s Committee on
Health.
