Phiwe Dauwa
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, South Africa
Biography
Phiwe Dauwa has completed her Bachelor’s degree in Nursing at the age of 22 years-old from the University of the Free State, South Africa qualifying as a registered nurse. She has worked in the Neonatal Intensive care unit at Thelle Mogoerane Regional hospital for department of health Gauteng in Johannesburg for the past 3 years and has manged to obtain certified qualifications in Neonatal ventilation and resuscitation, Mother Baby Friendly Initiative training, UNICEF WHO Mother baby friendly initiative management course and helping babies breath course. In her Neonatal unit she created the “Breastfriends” initiative to educate and support mothers with breastfeeding in her neonatal unit. In August 2018 she successfully project managed a Breastfeeding event in celebration and support of national Breastfeeding month. She is an enthusiastic United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) supporter and volunteer greatly concerned and attentive to more developed strategies in public health that will improve maternal and children’s health on a global scale.