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Konoklota is a TBA from Daliapur a village of Damurhuda upazila in Chuadanga district. She has received 7- day ‘Basic Training of Traditional Birth Attendants from IFB in 2019. Konoklota, age of 50 years of age is working as TBA for the last 20 years. At her early age she saw a close relative died of delivery related complication. That changed her mind and she started finding ways to prevent this type of unfortunate death. Then she started assisting a TBA lady in her village and after that she became herself a TBA.

I am confident to advise my area’s pregnant or neo-mother”. She further expresses her gratitude to Impact Foundation Bangladesh.

In her 20 years’ experience she has conducted about 100 deliveries. She said “the conception of ‘pregnant mother and their care’ has changed a lot, what we learnt from our grand-mothers, there is no use of those, now-a-days. So, I always felt to learn something new about that. I learnt a few from radio, TV and government FWAs (Family Welfare assistant).” After receiving TBA training from Impact, I was able to learn clearly the danger signs of pregnancy, importance of regular checkups, avoid heavy lifting, take adequate rest and TT vaccine. Now, I am confident to advise my area’s pregnant or neo-mother”. She further expresses her gratitude to Impact Foundation Bangladesh. Konoklota is so satisfied with the training. If she faces any problems or have any question related to pregnancy care, she come to ask IFB’s gynecologist. she also refers those mothers suffering from various problems during pregnancy to IFB hospital.