What is today the Fernandez Foundation, a not-for-profit organization, traces its origin to June 1948, when a young couple, Leslie and Lourdes Fernandez, started a clinic with two beds. That clinic grew into one of Hyderabad’s most well-recognized institutions – Fernandez Hospital.
Today, there are three hospitals, with over 300 beds, two Outpatient Clinics, and a Child Development Centre.
Every team member at Fernandez is wholly committed to our mission of providing high quality, evidence-based respectful care to women and children.
India’s high maternal mortality rate and the rising percentage of unnecessary medical interventions became a cause of concern for Dr. Evita Fernandez, the Foundation’s Chairperson.
After studying global best practices, she came to the realization that in countries where midwifery forms the backbone of maternity services, mortality and morbidity of both mother and the newborn reduced significantly, in many cases to single digits.
Dr. Evita then successfully ran a pilot midwifery programme in Fernandez Hospital and subsequently institutionalized it as a full-fledged midwifery service. She also made it her lifelong mission to promote midwifery in India.
Year 2011 saw the launch of Professional Midwifery Education & Training (PMET) Programme – a 2-year pilot programme to train 8 in-house nurses as Professional Midwives.
The pilot programme had a huge, positive impact on delivering respectful, woman-centered care to mothers and the newborn.
With midwives to tend to them, women began to have a greater say in the way they birthed their babies. For instance, they could choose the birthing position they were most comfortable with, they could opt for birthing partners and more.
Fernandez Foundation followed it up with 8 batches of inhouse nurses joining the programme between 2012 and 2019.
By this time Dr. Evita Fernandez was convinced that the need of the hour was to have professional midwifery across the country, as the backbone of safe respectful, equitable and woman-centric maternal care.
This has become such a driving force within Fernandez, that we launched the Fernandez Midwifery Initiative (formerly known as ProMiSe) with the objectives of…
Through PROMISE, the taskforce created by the Professional Midwifery Education & Training (PMET) Programme helps deliver simple safe, affordable care to low-risk mothers in the community.
In April 2016 a National Consultation on the Causes and Determinants of Caesarean Sections was held.
The National Caesarean Sections Consultation Report highlighted the following aspects
This was also the year when Telangana State began to embrace the idea of providing Professional Midwifery Services across all its government hospital setups.
The Growing Impact of Midwifery
The state government launched the KCR Kit Scheme for pregnant women in June 2017.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and
Government of India introduced Professional Midwifery in the state.
Telangana State started a Professional Midwifery Training Programme.
We established dedicated Midwifery Outpatient Clinics, to enable low-risk mothers to have midwifery-led care through their pregnancy, labour and birth.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India launched the guidelines on midwifery services in India.
In collaboration with the Telangana State Government and UNICEF, we successfully trained the first cohort of Professional Midwives to the International Council of Midwives (ICM) standard over an 18-month course – This being the first public-private partnership of its kind.
We opened one of India’s first fully equipped Midwifery-Led Units in Fernandez Hospital, Bogulkunta.
We inaugurated our new contemporary nursing and midwifery training institute.
Our journey continues as we remain steadfast in our commitment to ensuring that women and children receive high quality, respectful and humanized maternity care because good health and a life of dignity are their birthright.
Fernandez envisions a world in which every woman and child has access to high quality, compassionate care, that enables a life of respect and dignity.
We treat every person with respect and dignity irrespective of financial or social status.
What is today the Fernandez Foundation, a not-for-profit organization, traces its origin to June 1948, when a young couple, Leslie and Lourdes Fernandez, started a clinic with two beds. That clinic grew into one of Hyderabad’s most well-recognized institutions – Fernandez Hospital.
Today, there are three hospitals, with over 300 beds, two Outpatient Clinics, and a Child Development Centre.
Every team member at Fernandez is wholly committed to our mission of providing high quality, evidence-based respectful care to women and children.
India’s high maternal mortality rate and the rising percentage of unnecessary medical interventions became a cause of concern for Dr. Evita Fernandez, the Foundation’s Chairperson.
After studying global best practices, she came to the realization that in countries where midwifery forms the backbone of maternity services, mortality and morbidity of both mother and the newborn reduced significantly, in many cases to single digits.
Dr. Evita then successfully ran a pilot midwifery programme in Fernandez Hospital and subsequently institutionalized it as a full-fledged midwifery service. She also made it her lifelong mission to promote midwifery in India.
Year 2011 saw the launch of Professional Midwifery Education & Training (PMET) Programme – a 2-year pilot programme to train 8 in-house nurses as Professional Midwives.
The pilot programme had a huge, positive impact on delivering respectful, woman-centered care to mothers and the newborn.
With midwives to tend to them, women began to have a greater say in the way they birthed their babies. For instance, they could choose the birthing position they were most comfortable with, they could opt for birthing partners and more.
Fernandez Foundation followed it up with 8 batches of inhouse nurses joining the programme between 2012 and 2019.
By this time Dr. Evita Fernandez was convinced that the need of the hour was to have professional midwifery across the country, as the backbone of safe respectful, equitable and woman-centric maternal care.
This has become such a driving force within Fernandez, that we launched the Fernandez Midwifery Initiative (formerly known as ProMiSe) with the objectives of…
Through PROMISE, the taskforce created by the Professional Midwifery Education & Training (PMET) Programme helps deliver simple safe, affordable care to low-risk mothers in the community.
In April 2016 a National Consultation on the Causes and Determinants of Caesarean Sections was held.
The National Caesarean Sections Consultation Report highlighted the following aspects
This was also the year when Telangana State began to embrace the idea of providing Professional Midwifery Services across all its government hospital setups.
The Growing Impact of Midwifery
The state government launched the KCR Kit Scheme for pregnant women in June 2017.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and
Government of India introduced Professional Midwifery in the state.
Telangana State started a Professional Midwifery Training Programme.
We established dedicated Midwifery Outpatient Clinics, to enable low-risk mothers to have midwifery-led care through their pregnancy, labour and birth.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India launched the guidelines on midwifery services in India.
In collaboration with the Telangana State Government and UNICEF, we successfully trained the first cohort of Professional Midwives to the International Council of Midwives (ICM) standard over an 18-month course – This being the first public-private partnership of its kind.
We opened one of India’s first fully equipped Midwifery-Led Units in Fernandez Hospital, Bogulkunta.
We inaugurated our new contemporary nursing and midwifery training institute.
Our journey continues as we remain steadfast in our commitment to ensuring that women and children receive high quality, respectful and humanized maternity care because good health and a life of dignity are their birthright.
Fernandez envisions a world in which every woman and child has access to high quality, compassionate care, that enables a life of respect and dignity.
We treat every person with respect and dignity irrespective of financial or social status.
We stay forever in debt to the selfless contribution of our
International Midwifery Educators (IMEs), who helped us sow the seeds of midwifery education in India. They came when Fernandez Foundation had no midwifery role models to look up to or emulate. They believed in our vision and shared their invaluable experience and learnings with our trainee midwives. While we are working to spread midwifery across India, these IMEs remain deep in the roots – their teachings constantly pushing our purpose of providing respectful maternity care and humanized births to all women.
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Job Title: International Clinical Midwifery Educator, Fernandez Foundation
Accountable to: Director of Midwifery Services, Fernandez Foundation
Mission
We are committed to providing access to excellent, equitable, evidence-based and respectful healthcare for women and the new-born. We believe that life is sacred and precious, and we do our best to affirm and preserve it always.
Vision
A world in which every woman and child has access to high-quality, compassionate care, that enables a life of respect and dignity.
1. Teaching and Training
2. Clinical Mentorship
3. Professional Knowledge
4. Research and Audit
The above job specification is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all duties involved and consequently, the post holder may be required to perform other duties as appropriate to the post which may be assigned to him/her from time to time and to contribute to the development of the post while in office.
Job Title: National Midwifery Educator, Fernandez Foundation
Accountable to: Director of Midwifery Services, Fernandez Foundation
Mission
We are committed to providing access to excellent, equitable, evidence-based and respectful healthcare for women and the new-born. We believe that life is sacred and precious and we do our best to affirm and preserve it always.
Vision
A world in which every woman and child has access to high-quality, compassionate care, that enables a life of respect and dignity.
1. Teaching and Training
2. Clinical Mentorship
3. Professional Knowledge
4. Research and Audit
The above job specification is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all duties involved and consequently, the post holder may be required to perform other duties as appropriate to the post which may be assigned to him/her from time to time and to contribute to the development of the post while in office.
A midwife is a person who has completed a midwifery education programme that is based on the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Essential Competencies for Midwifery Practice and the framework of the ICM Global Standards for Midwifery Education. They provide care for women during pregnancy, labour, postpartum period as well as the care of the newborn baby.
A midwife is a person who has completed a midwifery
A midwife is a person who has completed a midwifery education programme that is based on the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Essential Competencies for Midwifery Practice and the framework of the ICM Global Standards for Midwifery Education. They provide care for women during pregnancy, labour, postpartum period as well as the care of the newborn baby.
