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Midwives college investigates Quadra birth ‘attendant’ BRIAN KIERAN CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
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Do the pumpkin smash Lauryn McKinley, 11, throws her pumpkin from the back of a truck carrying several hundred pounds of pumpkin destined for compost. The annual Pumpkin Smash, hosted by Comox Strathcona Waste Management, took place last Friday and Monday in the Strathcona Gardens parking lot to help families to keep their pumpkins out of the landfill.
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The BC College of Midwives is conducting an investigation into a Quadra Island woman, Moreka Jolar, who it claims is illegally doing the work of a midwife while claiming to be a traditional birth attendant. College Registrar Jane Kilthei tells the Mirror that Jolar has been on the College’s radar since 1998 and became an issue again this summer after the BC Ambulance Service flagged her role in the August birth of Morgan Stewart-Webb. Morgan’s life was saved by his dad Noah Webb, 25, a volunteer fire fighter whose training kicked into high gear after Morgan’s mom, Amanda, 28, went into labour three days early and gave birth in the couple’s backyard wading pool. Often babies take a few seconds to breath, but baby Morgan did not and the 911 call was made. Noah said later: “I’ve done quite a bit of training to do CPR, but I never thought I’d have to use it.” He inserted an airway and continued to work on the infant until paramedics arrived. Kilthei says she was contacted
by “someone very senior in the BC Ambulance Service.” Apparently, paramedics at the Quadra birth were troubled by what they encountered. The College alleges Jolar “provided midwifery care to a woman and her newborn in Quathiaski Cove on Quadra Island on Aug. 15 including managing this woman’s labour and delivery on her own responsibility.” “Jolar delivered a newborn male with a heart rate of less than 60 beats per minute and no respiratory effort who required full CPR including eight to 10 minutes of cardiac compressions.” The College also alleges that Jolar represented herself “as qualified to act as primary care provider at this woman’s birth.” “We sent Moreka Jolar a warning letter in September 1998 in which we outlined the penalties for breaching the Health Professions Act,” Kilthei says. The act defines restricted activities and amongst them are managing labour and delivering a newborn. Only physicians, nurses in hospitals and registered widwives are permitted to perform these procedures. The College claims that Jolar is leaving herself open Continued on A3
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