Besides the teaching of Global Health course topics, the
organizers of our visit arranged different activities in which we participated.
These activities included; orientation to KI campus, research meeting/sharing
(14th March 2018; during which the KI and Kamuzu college of nursing
faculty presented some research work that is being conducted); KI Education
Congress 2018 (15-16th March 2018), launching of a ‘skin-to-skin’
film which KI faculty have developed as part of their research project conducted in
Uganda, and a visit to three hospitals (BB Stockholm, KI hospital-Solna) and an
antenatal clinic in Nacka. These visits helped me to appreciate the status of
midwifery care in Sweden which is quite advanced. The major issue I observed is
the availability of resources necessary for care provision. The research
sharing helped us to link up with a team that is working on a proposal for a
projects in which KI faculty is involved in. This proposed project is titled
“Innovative maternity care: Scaling up midwifery-led continuity of care to
improve the functioning and sustainability of maternity care systems (IMPACT).
The team’s first meeting will be on 23rd April 2018 through probably
skype.