Navy to train village midwives

JAYAPURA, Irian Jaya: The Navy headquarters will start early next year training female villagers here and in Maluku province on how to be midwives, Antara reported Saturday.

Chief of the Maluku-Irian Jaya Naval Base Commodore Freddy Numberi said the monthly training sessions aim to provide people in the regions' coastal villages with more village midwives.

Numberi said Navy doctors would be deployed to train the female villagers. Upon completion of the training, graduates would be certified by the Ministry of Health, he said. (aan)