Maternity hospital forms partnership with Sudan

IRELAND’S newest and Sudan’s top maternity hospitals are to twin.

Doctors and midwives from Omdurman Maternity Hospital in Khartoum arrived in Cork yesterday to spend the week at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH).

Their visit will culminate with the signing of a five-year partnership plan that will have important benefits for newborn babies, their mothers and families in Sudan where the infant mortality rate is 15 times higher than here.