Photo from Doctors of the World news feed on facebook..
This is Lesley Page the President of the Royal College of Midwives... that has been out in Greece to assess the maternity care in the Refugee camps. Prof Lesley Page also had time as the Director of Midwifery at St Thomas's Hospital where I used to practice as a midwife.
On Friday it was the most amazing thing that happened. My post arrived just after midday and there was a letter from Brussels ... At first I thought I had been shortlisted for a job I had applied for. But it was a letter in response to the much writing around for funding for my Family Link Up project. A letter like all so far saying great what you doing Marjorie - there is funding but not for individual carer/befrienders. Feeling frustrated I rang the Doctors of the World here in London with a call to please can they get me out to Eleonas camp to be with Boshra when she has her second baby due soon.
Dr Nick who I was speaking too told me of Lesley's visit... Ohhh I so wish I could have gone with her. But then I emailed her to see if she could visit Boshra for me. Tweeted to her too...
I got a lovely caring reply as this is just Lesley a lovely caring midwife. She was by then in the Athens airport waiting for her return flight to the UK.... But she said that she had actually been in Eleonas camp that morning and yes had she known of my link up to Boshra would have most certainly visited her cabin and checked on her..... it felt so good to have had such a near link up through someone I have much respect for.......
I hope now we can meet to discuss her assessments of maternity care and share experiences....
It would be actually wonderful if there was a project to train some of the Syrian women in midwifery too... Many are graduates in some subject and would cope with the academic demands of a BSc in Midwifery.
http://linkupsyrianfamily.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/painful-missing.html
