Lui Training Institute



 
The Lui Health Training Institute is an AMREF funded training centre sponsoring young trainee nurses and nurse midwifes form all over South Sudan. In a ward trainees Andrua Julia (r) and Deborah Abol (c) insert an IV line into Janet Flora, a patient with dysentery.

 Lui Training Institute, Southern Sudan

The Lui National Health Training Institute is one of the oldest colleges in the country and was forced to close down during the war. AMREF took over running the school in 2006 to train community midwives. 

Southern Sudan only has 1,005 trained midwives. It’s estimate that an additional 2,150 are needed. Currently midwife students are selected by the government but it is very difficult to find enough qualified candidates because many schools were shut down during the war.  

The midwife course at the Lui Institute is ideally for high school graduates already serving as community health workers, auxiliary nurses or vaccinators, but students with lower qualifications are also admitted to make up for the shortfall or candidates. Finding qualified tutors is even more challenging.  But so far, 15 students have graduated from the Institute so far, with another 13 in their first year and 18 in their second. Those who graduate are certified as midwives by the Ministry of Health and posted back into their communities.

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AMREF's critical role in South Sudan

After 21 years of civil war health care in Southern Sudan was decimated, with very few trained health proessionals.



AMREF has worked in Southern Sudan since 1971, and is currently training health workers in Juba, Maridi, and Lui.

To date, AMREF has trained 80% of South Sudan's qualified health workers! 

Click here to learn more about AMREF's vital training programs.