Villages to have midwives

Villages to have midwives

AMBON, Maluku: By 1997, each of the 1,516 villages here will have at least one midwife, a health official says.

At present, only 430 villages have midwives posted in local health clinics, Antara quoted Dr. Izac Umarela, head of the provincial office of the Ministry of Health, as saying yesterday.

Next year, the health authorities will deploy 525 new midwives in the villages, he said. (swe)