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Article: Pakistan midwives bring 'traditional loving care with modern knowledge and skills': Imtiaz Taj Kamal, President of the Midwifery Association of Pakistan, introduces the new association as it is welcomed to membership with ICM this year.
- Article from:
- International Midwifery
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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In IM March/April 2004, we reported that Imtiaz had been awarded a gold medal for promoting the work of midwives in Pakistan over 50 years. She wrote then: 'It has been a long and uphill journey. I will be 77 in August. I am fortunate that I can see the results of my 'crusade' to promote midwifery in Pakistan. Over the past years midwifery is at last being discussed seriously at national level'. Three years later she now writes:
For the last three decades, a small group of midwives has worked informally, collecting evidence and making noise about the unacceptable standards of midwifery education and practice in Pakistan.
The founding of the association
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