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| Grad Joanie Alderson, Dr. Marla Marek team up to help women in Sierra Leone |
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| Sunday, 10 August 2008 06:30 |
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Joanie Alderson, ’07 BS Nursing, and Marla Marek of the CSU Stanislaus Department of Nursing faculty have dedicated themselves to help improve treatment for women seriously injured during childbirth in the Western African country of Sierra Leone. Alderson, who spent part of her childhood in Sierra Leone with her missionary parents, returned there after graduation to become a ward supervisor at Aberdeen West Africa Fistula Center, a modest medical facility that offers surgery for women who survive often fatal obstructed birth complications. Marek volunteered her nursing skills during a pair of visits with her former student and hopes to take a group of CSU Stanislaus student nurses there in summer 2010. Marek joined hospital staff to travel into the country’s interior, sometimes by canoe to remote villages, to help victims of obstructed labor. Sierra Leone has one of the world’s highest mortality rates for women who have suffered childbirth complications. Alderson supervises 20 nurses at the center where she lives and is on 24-hour call. She said the country, devastated by 11 years of civil war that ended in 2002, is in desperate need of midwives, medical specialists, and additional facilities. She plans to take a break later this summer to earn a Nurse Midwifery Certificate from UC San Francisco and then eventually take her skills back to Africa. For more on their work in Sierra Leone, check out the following Web sites: |
