Creating Synergy between Village Midwives and Traditional Midwives: To Reduce the Mortality Rate of Mothers and Babies: In the Central Kluet Sub-District Health Centre in South Aceh

Abstract

Traditional midwives have been helping assist with birthing from ages past. Traditional midwives are still trusted by villagers to assist with birthing even though official village midwives have now been appointed to every village. The reason that some mothers choose traditional midwives is that they provide assistance with birthing that is more in accordance with the traditional social customs of the people and they are already well known because they come from the village area. The purpose of this study was to get information about the reasons why the traditional midwives are stll providing birthing services and to see if there are opportunities for transfer of knowledge from the village midwives who works for the health service to the traditional midwives so that they can all work together. This study was done with the Central Kluet Sub-District Health Centre or Puskesmas in South Aceh District using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. The results of this study showed the women who gave birth in 2016 still used the services of a traditional midwife because the belief in them had been handed down and because the administration or rather lack of it was easy. The techniques for handling the data used reduction and triangulation of the data from the start so that as the data was gathered it was processed continuously to get early results which could be verified with the later data.