CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -This year’s International Day of the Midwife (IDM) on 5th May 2021 is being celebrated under the theme of “Follow the Data: Invest in Midwives”.

Detailed explanation-2: -The theme of this year’s International Nurses Day is “Nurses: A Voice to Lead – Invest in nursing and respect rights to secure global health”, and the theme of last week’s International Day of the Midwife was “100 years of progress”.

Detailed explanation-3: -International Midwives’ Day serves to remind us that the female body is perfectly capable of giving birth and carrying a child to term without some of the invasive methods employed by Obstetricians and other practitioners.

Detailed explanation-4: -International Day of the Midwife was first celebrated May 5, 1991, and has since been observed in over 50 nations around the world. The idea of having a day to recognize and honor midwives came out of the 1987 International Confederation of Midwives conference in the Netherlands.

Detailed explanation-5: -To promote normal birth, prevent the detection of complications in mother and child the accessing of medical care or other appropriate assistance and the carrying out of emergency measures.