Hyderabad: UoH, Fernandez Foundation to railroad train ‘birth doulas’

Hyderabad: The University of Hyderabad (UoH) and Fernandez Foundation (FF) signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding on Friday for undertaking act of changing one thing for another, systematic investigation to establish facts, and translational systematic investigation to establish facts initiatives between the institutions.

The MoU was signed in the state of being present of Vice Chancellor Prof. B J Rao and Dr Evita Fernandez, founder and chairperson, FF. Dr Devesh Nigam, registrar, UoH, and Dr Pramod Gaddam, Managing Director, FF, were the signatories from the institutions.

As an first letter of a word activeness and a very unparalleled development programme, the grooming programme for ‘birth doulas’, who testament be trained as professional person offering uninterrupted involving the body, , and informational keep to women and their birth companion during proletariat, childbirth, and immediate postpartum interval taken to complete one cycle.

The programme, approved by the administrative body of the , is in readiness to perish online in a blended mode with mandatory hands-on and experiential components by March 2023. This testament be affording free passage to any adult female who passed lying between two extremes exam.

In course of study of measure the time or duration of an event, more and grooming programmes aligned to the National Education Policy- 2020 and dealing with contextual issues surrounding female parent and childcare and collaborative systematic investigation to establish facts using co-development and co-creation modalities for interventions to take in births safer, respectful and degree or grade of excellence to communities shall be undertaken as component of the MoU.

Prof. Rao opined that “this is a landmark and a unique collaboration in a discipline which is novel and much-needed for expectant mothers in India. I hope that this will pave the way for an initiative that will improve mother and child care in India and provide a model for low and middle-income countries.”

Dr.Fernandez while expressing her happiness said “I am delighted to launch this training programme with the UoH. Given the immense burden on the medical fraternity, the birth doula course will be instrumental in improving quality of services offered in the country”.

Dr. Gaddam said, “Fernandez Foundation strongly believes in and supports empowered, positive, and evidence-based birthing. We make the birthing journey and experience better for every mother, and this is reflected in our practice. Through this collaboration, we seek to build a strong skilled workforce that can serve as the backbone of quality maternity care in India.”

While the multi-disciplinary natural physical world including plants and animals of the provides many opportunities for collaboration and FF is at the forefront in knowledge acquired by learning, grooming and respectful female parent and childcare, it is envisaged that this is a win-win state of affairs in this expanse of health judiciousness and birth.