In Pakistan, Empowering Midwives to Empower Women
November 21, 2017
November 21, 2017
NEW YORK, Nov. 21 -- The United Nations Population Fund issued the following news:
Aashu Tresa, 32, remembers when becoming a mother was a life-or-death proposition.
When she was growing up, no one in her rural village, Misree Kolhi, gave birth under the care of a trained health worker. "Unskilled, untrained birth attendants were doing deliveries in our community. Some of the newborns died and some of the women had infections during deliveries," she recounted. . . .
Aashu Tresa, 32, remembers when becoming a mother was a life-or-death proposition.
When she was growing up, no one in her rural village, Misree Kolhi, gave birth under the care of a trained health worker. "Unskilled, untrained birth attendants were doing deliveries in our community. Some of the newborns died and some of the women had infections during deliveries," she recounted. . . .