At the Mpharane Health Centre in Mohale’s Hoek district, Ntlhane Sehloho is busy examining his next patient.
Sehloho is one of about 300 male midwives in Lesotho and has been doing the work for two decades.
The exact number of male midwives is not available, as the government does not keep the data according to gender.
Talkative and ready with a joke, he seeks to put women at ease from the first of their prenatal visits.
Sehloho had good grades in school and wanted to become a nurse to help address the difficulties he had witnessed firsthand growing up in his rural community.
