Liberia, March 2 -- The Liberian Government through the Health Ministry, has launched a new Midwifery School at Bomi Community College (BCC), naming and styling it "Kartumu Boakai School of Midwifery" in honor of Liberia's First Lady, Kartumu Boakai.

By Jonathan O. Grigsby, Snr., Contributor Writer

The Bomi Community College (BCC), is a regional education hub that hosts Bomi, Grand Cape, and Gbarpolu Counties.

Speaking recently in Tubmanburg, on behalf of the Health Ministry, Dr. Louise Kpoto, Madam Cuallau Jabbeh Howe, Assistant Health Minister for Preventive Services, described the opening of the Midwifery School as more than the introduction of a new academic program.

Minister Howe underscored that maternal and newborn health remai...