Navy to train village midwives

Mon, 24 Nov 1997, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

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)

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