Nicholas Neighbors
10/09/09
3:50 pm.
Thousands of Indian women are dying because they have a lack of prenatal care during pregnancy and childbirth. The Human Rights Watch reported poor access to emergency services which forced many women to give birth in unclean conditions. Because these unsafe conditions the women are getting infections or die. One in 70 women in India die from these complications while one in 7,300 die in developed countries from the same thing. Many of the women are getting turned away from hospitals because they are too poor to pay the medical bills associated with the cost of having a baby such as the nurse bill, the cleaning supplies, medicine, and the cutting of the umbilical cord. This study also came a few days after the report that 400,000 Indian newborns die each year from preventable causes within 24 hours of their birth.
Seeing the amount of women who die from such a preventable cause is scary. Many of the women simply need a clean place to have a baby, in a sterile environment, with a doctor and nurses. I know that many underdeveloped countries don't have any health care systems in place, and they also don't have the funds to afford the hospitals, but seeing the hospitals turn people away is sad. Its obvious that they can't necessarily pay for the people to have babies, but it seems like such a preventable cause. I want to go into the health field myself, and I'm not sure that I could look away when a person is in need. I know I will have to at times, but it will be very difficult.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20091007/thl-india-s-mothers-risk-life-to-give-bi-4aa7bf8.html
1 comment:
this artical has some very sad statistics. so many women die to give birth to children because there is not enough prenatal care. while some would die no matter what, many of these women and families could be saved with just alittle extra help.
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