Caring for Women and Children in Vietnam
Thanks to Project HOPE volunteer midwives, a Vietnamese woman learns she will be having a little girl, due October 13.
Project HOPE volunteers played a big part in Women’s and Children’s Health care during Pacific Angel 2012 Vietnam.
The PACANGEL women’s health team members, composed of Project HOPE and U.S Air Force nurses and physicians conducted an ultrasound examination of a Vietnamese woman in this photo. The team learned the woman has two children, a boy and a girl. Thanks to Pacific Angel she now knows she’ll be having a little girl, due on October 13.
In this photo, Project HOPE Certified Nurse Midwife Ha Nguyen, checks a Vietnamese woman’s throat. Ha grew up in Vietnam before moving to the United States and studying for her nursing and midwife degrees at UCLA. She now practices in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The PACANGEL mission to Vietnam is her first Project HOPE mission. Ha’s native Vietnamese language speaking ability made her one of the most popular health care providers on the joint HOPE/US Air Force health team as she struck up an immediate bond with her fellow Vietnamese countrymen.
First-time Project HOPE volunteer Alice Taylor, a Certified Nurse Midwife and Lt Col Tammy, a U.S. Air Force Women’s Nurse Practitioner peek out of a makeshift exam room that helps provide privacy for female exams.