Equatorial Guinea - Campaign to End Fistula

(ii)
Capacities of health personnel on prevention and handling of obstetric fistula.
TABLE 1:
CATEGORIES OF DELIVERY ATTENDANCE PERSONNEL INTERVIEWED
(JUNE 2005)
CATEGORY OF PERSONNEL TOTAL %
Doctors 1 1
Gynecologists 4 3
Midwifes 7 6
High level nurses/Nurses 6 5
Delivery auxiliary personnel 39 34
Traditional midwifes 51 44
Others 8 7
TOTAL 116 100
GRAPHIC 1:
PROPORTION OF DELIVERY ATTENDANCE PERSONNEL EQUATORIAL GUINEA
(JUNE 2005)
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Doctors
Gynecologists
Midwifes
High level
nurses/Nurses
Delivery
auxiliary
personnel
Traditional
midwifes
Others
%
Serie1
Serie2
PROFESSIONAL CATEGORY
Comments:
The table of delivery attendance personnel interviewed in June 2005, gives an indication of the insufficient number of qualified
personnel where generalist doctors represents 1%, followed by gynecologists (3%) and while the nurses and trained midwives
(11%). This shows the evidence of the aparition of obstetric fistula in Equatorial Guinea as the delivery attendance personnel
(34%) and the traditional midwives (44%) represents the majority of the personnel attending deliveries in Equatorial Guinea.
With the availability of the 72 doctors to be graduated in the Bata University (UNGE), the Faculty of Medicin in Bata, as well as
the other groups about to be graduated in Cuba universities, the training programme of 120 midwives in Bata University up to
2010 by the National Programme for Repropdutive Health, a positive change of this situation is envisaged in the near future.
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