Under Thematic Area 3 on Maternal, New-born and Child Health and Nutrition and Thematic Area 5 on Emergency Health Response and Interventions of the Strategic Health Programme of Action (SHPA), SESRIC organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Turkey (MoH) and the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organisations (UOSSM) an on-site training on Emergency Obstetrics and C-Section in War for a period of two weeks on 17-31 January 2017 for the benefit of 2 Syrian doctors and 4 midwives in Istanbul Zeynep Kamil Obstetrics and Genecology Hospital.

The training represented the first phase of a project that aims to train 6 Syrian doctors and 15 midwives on emergency cases and C-Section in war in both gynaecology and obstetrics and will be followed by two similar trainings and aims at the end to train 4 trainers (2 doctors and 2 midwives) among the participating trainees.

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