Constance
Odonkor is a Principal Midwifery Officer at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra
-Ghana
With
sixteen years’ experience and skills in maternal and newborn health. Her
Passion for maternal and newborn health makes her exceptional in providing
excellent expert quality care to patients. Her leadership skills include
inspiring, teaching, coaching and mentoring students and staff.
She
has worked in the various units which includes the antenatal, obstetric
emergency, labour room, postnatal and baby’s unit; where she provides holistic
care to women during pregnancy, labour and postpartum.
She
had her diploma education in midwifery at the Nursing and Midwifery Training
College, Korle-Bu, after which she furthered her studies at Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science and Technology and obtained, a bachelor of Science in
Midwifery.
For
effective delivery role in leadership, she had the opportunity to study these
courses at University of Washington (USA) and was awarded certificate in
Leadership in Health Management, 2022, Policy development and Advocacy for
Global Health and Monitoring and Evaluation in Global Health 2024 - 2025
respectively.
• Furthermore, she is a lactation
counsellor and serve as a facilitator for trainings at the obstetric and spokesperson for media engagements in the
community for the department and hospital as a whole. She is also an active
member of Ghana registered Nurses and Midwives Association as well as the southern zone representative for G-DNA( Ghanaian Diaspora Nursing
Alliance)
In
addition, she has conducted research on pre-eclampsia, that is knowledge of
midwives in the management of preeclampsia. She has presented abstracts for
both local and international conferences.
Beyond
her clinical work, Constance organsise and participates in community outreach
programs focused on maternal and newborn.
Due
to her resilience, commitment, hard work and dedication to work activities; she
was awarded the best midwife for Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital which was organized
by UNFPA/Ministry of Health in 2020, she had an honorary award as the best
nurse manager in 2022 at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (Obstetrics and
Gynecological department).
