Equatorial Guinea - Campaign to End Fistula

TABLE 2:
DISTRIBUTION OF DELIVERY ASSISTANCE PERSONNEL,
BY YEARS OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (JUNE 2005)
PROFESS
EXPERIEN
HEALTH PERSONNEL
(YEARS) Doctors Gynecolo Midwifes HLN/Nurs DA.person Trad. midw Others TOTAL
0 - 4 0 0 0 0 7 16 5 28
5 - 9 1 2 1 1 5 5 0 15
10 - 14 0 1 2 1 9 6 1 20
15 - 19 0 1 2 1 5 3 0 12
20 - 24 0 0 1 0 2 5 0 8
25 - 29 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2
30 - 34 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 5
35 - 39 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
40 & more 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 3
Not specif. 0 0 0 2 7 11 2 22
TOTAL 1 4 6 7 39 51 8 116
GRAPHIC 2:
DISTRIBUTION OF DELIVERY ASSISTANCE PERSONNEL BY YEARS AND CATEGORY OF
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE JUNE 2005
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
0 - 4
5 - 9
10 - 14
15 - 19
20 - 24
25 - 29
30 - 34
35 - 39
40 &
more
Not
specif.
N. professionals
Doctors
Gynecolo
Midwifes
HLN/Nurs
DA.person
Trad. midw
Others
Years of experience
Comments :
The analysis of the distribution of delivery assistance personnel by years and category of professional experience shows that
most of the deliveries have been conducted by less than 20 years of professional experience personnel. This personnel, most
of them are traditional midwives and delivery auxilliar personnel which represents 78% of the effectif interviewed and not
trained to conduct deliveries. Consequently these most influenced women among the population (trad. midw) should be
trained, motivated and receive close supervision in order to improve delivery assistance process as well as to reduce obstetric
fistula in Equatorial Guinea.
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