UNFPA ESARO | Global shortage of 900,000 midwives threatens women's lives and health, new report shows

Global shortage of 900,000 midwives threatens women’s lives and health, new report shows
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4 May 2021
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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.” 
My heart was beating fast. I knew that these lives were at risk.
An ambulance raced them to the hospital, but the woman’s labour was progressing too quickly. “The mother was so scared and she kept begging me to bring her baby to life safely: ‘Don’t let him die’,” Ms. Yousif said. “My heart was beating fast. I knew that these lives were at risk.”

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