The symposium discussed midwives role in saving women’s lives in humanitarian emergencies. The UN agency reached 11.4 million people with sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence services in humanitarian settings last year in 55 countries. “Midwife has the resilience to respond to humanitarian crisis,” Chief sexual and reproductive health branch of UNFPA, Anneka Knutson, said. Rondi Anderson, a midwife specialist at the UNFPA Dhaka office, told bdnews24.com that they also deployed midwives after the cyclone disasters in Bangladesh. “We also deployed midwives when Myanmar refugees came to Bangladesh last year in October,” she said, adding that currently 4O midwives are deployed in Cox’s Bazar areas after the cyclone Mora.

Source: bd News24 June 20, 2017 15:11 UTC