LDS Charities sponsors many Humanitarian Aid Projects worldwide every year. We were asked to help with a Neo-Natal Resuscitation Clinic in Ibadan, Nigeria. Ibadan is 140 Kilometers North of Lagos. The request for our help came in October of 2008 so it always seemed far, far in the future. The future came very fast, and away we went. We worked Sunday, January 18 through Wednesday, January 21, 2009. The lady above is one of our Trainer\Facilitators. She is holding one of the new-born baby mannequins that every group had to practice the training on. There were 48 Nurse\Midwives and 60 Doctors trained and certified at this clinic. Linda and I had the support responsibility with the Nurse\Midwives. This is one of our 6 Nurse\Midwife training groups. The Physicians were broken out into 8 groups.
One of the Nurses is checking for heart rate in this picture. The man behind her is a Doctor who was trained in a previous LDS Charities sponsored Neo-Natal Training Clinic. He works as a Trainer\Facilitator now. Nurses and Doctors came from all over Nigeria for the Training.
The Nurses kept the "babies" wrapped and cared for as if they were a real new-born. This one is suctioning the mouth of this baby. Each participant went through several scenarios they might encounter during a delivery. They were required to demonstrate that they could respond appropriately to whatever the Facilitator\Trainer said was happening with the "baby".
This lady Physician is the head of the Nigerian Pediatric Assocition. Dr. Isaac "Ike" Ferguson has just presented her with this plaque of a new-born being held in a hand. It was very touching. You can see from Dr. Ike's tie that we had worked a very long, very hot day. This is at about 6:30 PM on the last day. We worked from 6 AM Monday until 8 PM on Tuesday, the day this was taken .
This shows Dr. Ike Ferguson with some of our 20 Facilitator\Trainers. All of them have been trained and Certified in previous LDS Charity Training sessions by Dr. Ferguson, Gloria, his wife, and medical professionals from the U. S. Ike worked for the LDS Church as Welfare Director for West Africa for four years, 2003-2007. He and his wife had served as Mission President and wife in Phoenix, 1999-2002. He currently organizes Humanitarian Aid Training Projects all over West Africa as a retired Church Service Volunteer. We know of 4 projects he and Gloria are managing in 2009.
LDS Charities sponsors many Humanitarian Aid Projects worldwide every year. We were asked to help with a Neo-Natal Resuscitation Clinic in Ibadan, Nigeria. Ibadan is 140 Kilometers North of Lagos. The request for our help came in October of 2008 so it always seemed far, far in the future. The future came very fast, and away we went. We worked Sunday, January 18 through Wednesday, January 21, 2009. The lady above is one of our Trainer\Facilitators. She is holding one of the new-born baby mannequins that every group had to practice the training on. There were 48 Nurse\Midwives and 60 Doctors trained and certified at this clinic. Linda and I had the support responsibility with the Nurse\Midwives. This is one of our 6 Nurse\Midwife training groups. The Physicians were broken out into 8 groups.
One of the Nurses is checking for heart rate in this picture. The man behind her is a Doctor who was trained in a previous LDS Charities sponsored Neo-Natal Training Clinic. He works as a Trainer\Facilitator now. Nurses and Doctors came from all over Nigeria for the Training.
The Nurses kept the "babies" wrapped and cared for as if they were a real new-born. This one is suctioning the mouth of this baby. Each participant went through several scenarios they might encounter during a delivery. They were required to demonstrate that they could respond appropriately to whatever the Facilitator\Trainer said was happening with the "baby".
This lady Physician is the head of the Nigerian Pediatric Assocition. Dr. Isaac "Ike" Ferguson has just presented her with this plaque of a new-born being held in a hand. It was very touching. You can see from Dr. Ike's tie that we had worked a very long, very hot day. This is at about 6:30 PM on the last day. We worked from 6 AM Monday until 8 PM on Tuesday, the day this was taken .
This shows Dr. Ike Ferguson with some of our 20 Facilitator\Trainers. All of them have been trained and Certified in previous LDS Charity Training sessions by Dr. Ferguson, Gloria, his wife, and medical professionals from the U. S. Ike worked for the LDS Church as Welfare Director for West Africa for four years, 2003-2007. He and his wife had served as Mission President and wife in Phoenix, 1999-2002. He currently organizes Humanitarian Aid Training Projects all over West Africa as a retired Church Service Volunteer. We know of 4 projects he and Gloria are managing in 2009.
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