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Strategy for Retaining Midwives in Rural Nigeria using Adapted Model; Pilot and Evaluation
Abstract
The shortage of skilled health personnel is a global phenomenon with sub-Saharan Africa worst hit. This has had a great impact on the quality of health care services delivered across the region, resulting in poor maternal and child health indices. Our aim is to offer a model that will help address these shortages. A careful pre-midwifery selection and enrolment from the local communities together with motivation through social and financial incentives will provide the needed solution to the increasing attrition of health workers in the rural areas of Nigeria. Therefore, government at all levels should give particular attention to the pre-enrolment selection criteria in order to avert this catastrophe.
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