She works alongside six community health workers and a male nurse.
Annie says they attend to five to six deliveries in a day, while two to three mothers deliver at home or on their way to the hospital.
“I find joy in myself if I do a procedure and it turns out successful and the mother and the baby are well,” she says.
Annie started working in the Balimo Hospital labour ward as a nurse in 2017, when there was no midwife. She was the only nursing officer among the community health workers.
