DM WATCH Presented at the National Dissemination Seminar on Midwifery Education and Services

DM WATCH presented the findings of the study in a national dissemination seminar on midwifery education and services organized by the Directorate General of Nursing and Midwifery (DGNM) in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). DM WATCH conducted a study on “Pathways to Women’s Empowerment through Midwifery Education” commissioned by FCDO.

Mr. Md. Saiful Hassan Badal, the Honorable Secretary of the Medical Education and Family Welfare Division of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare was the Chief Guest on the occasion. H. E. Mr. Robert Chatterton Dickson, the British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Dr. Vibhavendra Raghuyamshi, the Chief of Health, UNFPA, Bangladesh, Dr. Daniel Novac, First Secretary, Embassy of Sweden in Bangladesh attended the seminar. Ms. Siddika Akter, the Director General of the Directorate General of Nursing and Midwifery (DGNM), the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), chaired the seminar.

Professor Salma Akhter, Lead of the DM WATCH study team, presented the key findings at the seminar. Over two hundred representatives from different ministries, development partners, implementing agencies, midwifery institutions, midwifery students and nursing students were among the other attendees.