As part of the emergency response UNFPA Somalia, In partnership with a two local NGOs, Somalia Birth Attendants Cooperative Organisation (SBACO), and Hadia Hospital, UNFPA has established 13 Maternity Waiting Homes (MWH) in settlements for Internally Displaced People (IDP) in Mudug and Galgadud regions. Each maternity waiting home is located at IDP settlement and equipped with the necessary equipment for normal delivery.
The maternity waiting home is run by one trained skilled midwife who received two Basic Emergency Obstetric Care (BEMOC) trainings before starting the work, she assisted by a Traditional Birth Attendant (TBA), whose role is to mobilize and register pregnant women at the IDP camps and refer them to the MWH. Importantly, three doctors, trained for one month on Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric Care (CEMOC) supervise the work of the midwives and refer the complicated cases to the referral hospitals. As per December, the following cases were assisted in the nine MWH's in Mudug and run by SBACO since the starting of the project in September 2011. A total of 665 women delivered safely, 611 benefitted from antenatal care and 640 Clean Delivery kits were distributed.
