Birth & Midwifery in India
RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AND PRACTITIONERS

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Midwifery Today Country Contacts

Uma Handa and Manju Chhugani

Manju Chhugani is a lecturer at the College of Nursing Jamia Hamdard. She has been teaching midwifery since 1991 and is the secretary for the Society of Midwives (India), Delhi Chapter. She is pursuing her PhD in nursing management and is proficient in English, Hindi and Sindhi. Manju's goals are to work toward raising the standards of nursing and midwifery education in India and to work persistently for safe motherhood and women's empowerment.

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Birth/Midwifery

• Birth India—Natural Way of Child Birth
• Birthing Center—Center for pregnancy, natural birth, waterbirth and holistic care
• The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood
• The Trained Nurses' Association of India
• The Indian Nursing Council

Parenting/Breastfeeding

• Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India
• La Leche League
• Centre for Health Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness (CHETNA means "awareness" in several Indian languages)

Education

• Jamia Hamdard, a seat of higher learning in Unani Medicine, Islamic Studies, Biosciences, Pharmacy, Nursing and other areas of knowledge