Global shortage of 900,000 midwives threatens women ’s lives and health, new report shows

ERBIL, Iraq/UNITED NATIONS, New York –“A 35-year-old pregnant woman came to our clinic with abdominal pain,” recalled Hawrin Yousif, a 27-year-old midwife in the Khazir displacement camp in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq. “After conducting a medical check-up, I understood that she had been going through early labour for the last five hours and urgently needed to be taken to the maternity hospital in Erbil.”  
Source: UNFPA News - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Source Type: news