International Day of the Midwife on May 5th established
International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) in 1992. There are
records of a midwifes’ conference held in Berlin, Germany, in
the year 1900, attended over 1000 midwives and orchestrated
without telephones, computers, credit cards, aircrafts and other
means of communication. A group of midwives from the Europe,
mainly from Antwerp in Belgium, initiated in 1919 the formation
of the International Confederation of Midwives / ICM /. Today,
ICM has more than 90 members from over 80 countries.
International Day of the Midwife is to support the midwives of
the world to celebrate midwifery as a profession through various
forms of activities, to share examples of good practice in
midwifery in order to improve people's health. In University
Clinical Center Tuzla work 24 midwives, who daily assisting
women during safe childbirth. Professionals in midwifery have a
serious and difficult task, but educational institutions,
governments and society as a whole are also r