Interestingly, all of the NRT doctors here are female, as are the majority of doctors. Medicine is socialized here and the pay is quite low. In fact, low paid
teachers make more money here than doctors. It can be a difficult profession to survive in.It seems that there has been significant difficulty here, with newborns not surviving the birth process. We reported here earlier that a number of doctors themselves sought counseling after losing a few newborns they felt they should have been able to save. That is easier to understand once we learned that those same doctors are all mothers, themselves.
They would perform autopsies on those infants and discover most of them had collapsed lungs - something fairly easily corrected in the States. But they have had neither the training nor the equipment to deal with those situations here.
So, the Church brought in Doctor Cornish (an Area Seventy) and Doctor Preece (that is Dr Preece teaching through a translator in the first photo - Dr./Elder Cornish is sitting with his back to the camera) to provide the needed training, and donated 500 small resuscitators for the locals to use. The NRT Specialists will now return to their hospitals and train others.
As we watched part of that training, it became apparent that one of the first things that needed to be done was to help them unlearn what they had been doing and then learn and practice newer techniques which have been proven to save many such newborns.
You can see the small resuscitators and the specially altered dolls used in the training, sitting on this table.Comments could be heard along the lines of, ‘This is the best NRT training we have ever had.’ And we couldn’t help but wonder what it would be like for those same doctors when they use their new training and save their first newborn because of it.
How thankful we are to be able to witness the wonderful things that are happening here.
Side Note: Sister Caldwell and I had the added privilege to sit with Elder/Dr Cornish for dinner Monday night. What a treat that was! He shared some wonderful Gospel things with us and we felt very fortunate to have that opportunity.
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3 comments:
It's amazing that something that seems so simple (the resuscitators) and taken for granted by us can make such a big difference. Glad to see they're getting the help they need.
Yet another thing that we take for granted here. It is amazing (sad really) to learn how difficult things are for people over there. Even just the little things mean the world to them. We are very lucky to live where we do. At the same time, you are very lucky to be a part of helping so many people over there.
Is this one of the things you are doing to keep the missionaries there in Mongolia or is it part of the humanitarian effort? Whatever it is, it's a great training. I think everyone should have it, even in Nauvoo.
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