Hey everyone,
In current
Global health news, a new report has been written on attempting to reduce
maternal and neonatal deaths from childbirth in Indonesia, where childbirth
related deaths are still incredibly high. Indonesia signed the Millennium
Development Goals, but it is estimated that they will not achieve these goals
by the target date. The country is spread out over an archipelago of thousands
of islands, and though the country has been greatly urbanized into over 10
megacities, most of the population lives in rural areas in islands where
medical attention is really hard to get. Though there are many midwives in
Indonesia that can attend to women in childbirth, most of them are not properly
trained to deal with crises. In those cases women must be sent to hospitals,
but transportation problems between islands continue.
The report indicates
that Indonesia needs hundreds more clinics to treat emergency patients for
cesarean sections, blood transfusions, and neonatal intensive care. Dr. Adashi,
an obstetrics professor at Brown’s Alpert Medical School, was a part of the
committee writing the report and says that he expects the Indonesian government
to embrace the goals.
~ Catherine
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