Africa: Global Shortage of 900,000 Midwives Threatens Lives and Health - Report

[UNFPA] Erbil. Iraq/United Nations -- 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: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news