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Nurses and Midwives – the Heart of Healthcare in Namibia Nurses and Midwives – the Heart of Nurses and midwives are the backbone of the health care system. They play a crucial role in health promotion, disease prevention, and treatment. In fact, we Healthcare in Namibia can’t achieve universal health coverage or reach Sustainable Development Goal 3 without nurses. Participating in UTAP’s trainings, workshops, and person. Besides being inspired, I can truly say my improvement in my patients and when giving pregnancies, hopefully they can avoid falling else’s wellbeing, especially their health, has These are just some of the reasons why the mentorship has increased his knowledge and skills love, passion, and heart for the next person was emotional support by holding the hands of pregnant and change their behaviors. been one of the biggest motivators to pursue World Health Organization has declared in managing ART. He says: the primary reason I decided to become a nurse. family members who have just experienced I believe through nursing you can impact this career with everything inside of me. I would like to advise young people, especially 2020 the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, I love my job as an ART nurse because I like tragedy. Actually, it gives me an inner peace somebody’s life and have good results. I’ve helped and taken care of very many helping people and saving lives. I chose to work in young men, to consider nursing as a profession, in honor of the 200th birthday of Florence that I was able to help somebody. I would like to thank PEPFAR and USAID patients, and the most rewarding part HIV because the illness is still highly discriminated especially if you have a heart for people, because Nightingales. As we gear up to celebrate Yes, we have challenges—like shortages for the HIV trainings provided by IntraHealth has always been being there for patients against and stigmatized. we have such a shortage of male nurses and of equipment, resources, and nurses which through UTAP’s support. Because of UTAP, I emotionally, because I firmly believe that the birthday of perhaps the world’s most As difficult as it can get being an ART nurse, I in general a shortage of nurses in our country. result in long working hours—but we work can proudly say that I’m an ART nurse. I now one’s emotions can determine physical famous nurse next year, we’re already like dealing with patients who don’t adhere to For the sake of our health care system and our with enthusiasm to make the most of what have this passion for HIV and want to remain health and recovery time. celebrating and appreciating the nurses their medication—it is very rewarding at times. I nation, I would really like to encourage young we have because the Health Minister urged in this field. Being a nurse has been incredibly rewarding. Ndamononghenda Kamundilo, Marvelous Mariwa, Registered Nurse and and midwives of Namibia. They are the remember in 2017, when we as a district celebrated people to consider a career in nursing. Our nation us a to do more with the little we have, and Today, when one of my patients defaults However, it also comes with numerous Registered Nurse and Midwife, St. Midwife, Andara District Hospital, Kavango frontline health care champions who show our first milestone in preventing HIV transmission needs us! we do that with a smile. from treatment, I do everything, I can to trace challenges, and one of those challenges has Mary’s Health Center, Odibo, Ohangwena East up every day, acting as agents of change at from mothers to their children with the former U.S. I would like to thank and encourage my fellow My fellow nurses let’s honour the logo of the them and investigate why they don’t take been a lack of resources. As a nurse, you’re Region their health facilities. Ambassador to Namibia, Thomas F. Daughton. It nursing colleagues to work hard, to stay Ministry of Health, which says, “Your health, their medicine and find a way to get them expected to provide quality health care, Marvelous Mariwa was inspired by her mother to IntraHealth International, with financial was a joyous day and reminded me why I chose to committed, and to always give their all, because our priority”—let’s make our patients’ health back on treatment. I believe I can improve however that cannot be optimally achieved Ndamomogheda Kamundilo loves being a become a nurse. Helping patients motivates her to support from the President’s Emergency become a nurse. it is important to always provide quality care and a top priority! more lives by training more nurses about the if the resources aren’t available. We often midwife, though she says they do experience do her job. She says: Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through I have learned a lot about clinical HIV management to treat our patients with the necessary respect. disease and educating patients about HIV, must improvise, because at the end of the challenges, such as drunk patients who I became a nurse because of my mother, who was the United States Agency for International and the social aspects of clients. I believe every so that they can see that HIV is not a death day, someone’s life is in your hands, and sometimes provoke them by swearing at also a nurse. But as time went on, I got motivated nurse was drawn to nursing because of a desire sentence, but merely a chronic disease. you must do everything possible to put their them. She says: Development (USAID), implements the by the zeal to assist sick people. to care, to serve, or to help. Let’s continue serving health first. I love being a midwife because it’s a really USAID HIV Clinical Services Technical What I like most about being a nurse is that I’m and healing our communities. We have successfully integrated TB care into intimate time for a family, and you get to Assistance Program (UTAP), which able to save lives! health services at Kuvukiland (a community share in their joy. Seeing someone smile works with the government of Namibia Although we are faced with challenges daily— clinic based in an informal settlement) because of my help is the greatest pleasure! to strengthen integrated HIV care and like understaffing and being verbally abused or and this has been because of the human I remember last year, when a colleague treatment services and close the gaps harassed by patients—it’s the little things, like the resources, training, and technical support and I helped a mother successfully deliver in the care continuum. IntraHealth appreciation from patients and their families, that we’ve received as a district from UTAP twins. It was a difficult delivery, where one motivates you to keep on making a difference in also provides training, mentoring, and through IntraHealth International. The of the baby’s’ shoulders got stuck behind the people’s lives. technical support to enable health workers support provided by UTAP has brought about mother’s pelvic bone, but we managed to I would like to encourage young people to become to deliver high-quality, comprehensive a fast change, and to them it may be a drop save both babies and the mother at the end nurses, since we need more nurses, but also to health services. in the ocean, but to us it has brought about of the day. That made my heart very happy. remind them that nursing is not about money— In preparation for 2020, the “Year of the immense change, and for that we will always We are trained to care for strangers. nursing is a passion and should come from your Nurse and the Midwife”, IntraHealth’s Valery Israel Hailoula, Registered Nurse, be thankful. However, there are times when our character heart. Mwashekele, Senior Communications Oshikuku District Hospital, Omusati is tested, and we feel as though every pinch Officer, and Cherizaan Willemse, Programs Region of inspiration to do our job well has left us. Officer, interviewed nurses and midwives Frans Tweufilwa, Enrolled Nurse, Omuthiya This is when inspiration like this interview from each of the eight UTAP-supported District Hospital, Oshikoto Region Israel Hailoula is the infection, prevention Anastasia Ndazapo, Registered Nurse comes into the picture to lift our spirit and districts: Onandjokwe, Oshikuku, Engela & control focal point at Oshikuku district at Tsumeb District Hospital, Oshikoto remind us why we chose this profession—to Frans Tweufilwa, an ART nurse, likes preventing (Odibo), Andara, Nyangana, Omuthiya, Alina Nepela, Senior Registered Nurse, hospital. He says: Region save lives. Thank you for appreciating us. Onandjokwe District, Oshikoto Region people from getting sick and inspiring others. He Tsumeb, and Grootfontein. Here are their As a young boy visiting hospitals, I saw My colleague nurses—stay motivated says: stories: how beautiful the nurses looked in their Anastasia Ndazapo, an ART nurse, loves and dedicated. We can do this. Let’s keep Alina Nepela, the primary health care supervisor I like being a nurse because of the different white uniforms and the way they cared and working with people and encourages Namibia healthy. of Onandjokwe district, felt called to nursing and fields of nursing. I mostly enjoy primary health provided services to their patients. That patients to take responsibility for their health. loves to help and educate her community about care because you work with the prevention of touched my heart and inspired me to become She says: health issues. Nepela is one of the nurses who diseases. I don’t like to see people sick, I like to one of them.
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