November 15 (NMG) : Young ethnic women from Indo-Burma border and Burmese refugees from New Delhi in November first week completed the auxiliary midwife training which used the illiterate training techniques in Jamkhad near Mumbai, said one of the trainees who got back to border area yesterday.

“Previously elderly peoples attended such kind of training. The same teaching methods were used for us and we could understand easily,” Ma Le Le who just returned from training said.

Jamkhad, a small town near Mumbai, is famous for its rural health care and public awareness what officially called ‘Comprehensive Rural Health Project’.

Dr Aung Kyaw Oo, chairman of the National Health and Education Committee (Western Branch), who organized the training said “There is a center for rural health care in Jamkhad near Bombay. Peoples from more than 120 countries all over the world come this center every year to learn the techniques on rural heath care.”

“Doctors including one Burmese doctor, Dr Pacin, and well-experienced sisters (nurses) who have been working in the center for years conducted the training at the center,” he added.

Ten Burmese ladies from Indo-Burma border comprising of several ethnic groups, such as Chin, Naga, Kuki and Burmese completed the training.

The objective of training is to fill the gap of health care for pro-democracy activists, refugees and workers from Burma living in India and those who are living remote areas where there is no doctor and nurse.

Auxiliary midwife training was conducted for one month from October 5 to November 5, 2003.

Network Media Group