AKA the Guatemetecan Midwife. These brightly coloured ladies are the fear of all medical students in Guatemala. It is the responsibility of the students during their public health rotation (which is what I doing), to monitor and meet with these woman twice a month in at their local outreach clinics, and once a month juntos in a school in San Juan. The students also have to monitor mala practica of these scary women and teach them basic facts about pregnancy, including when to push, warning signs before delivery for pre-eclampsia and malpresentations (breech etc), and after delivery [View Full Entry]

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