Sampling 1,300 women and maternity professionals in the UK, the inquiry found 4 to 5 percent of women develop post-traumatic stress disorder every year after giving birth approximately 30,000 women.
<strong>Letter: </strong>Recent reports from the CQC and MBRRACE-UK paint a shocking picture of deteriorating women’s health services. The government must act now, says <strong>Prof Geeta Nargund</strong>
1 February 22, 2021 11:35 by Anjola Alabi
Deontaye Osazuwa
According to a 2020 report published by MBRRACE-UK (Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk Through Audits and Confidential Enquiries Across the UK), Black women are four times more likely to die during pregnancy and after childbirth in the UK than white women.
It’s a statistic that shouldn’t exist in the 21st Century, in our supposedly “post-racial” society. But it does. And it highlights one of the most nefarious and tragic ways racial inequality impacts Black people.
It’s an issue that is finally being discussed in the mainstream, both the why and what can be done to reduce such inequality in the medical field.