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Skilled providers are THE most important resources to improving care and maternal health around the world. This educational video from Every Mother Counts explores the importance of human resources. Category:

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4,710 Like Add to Share Uploaded by everymothercounts on Apr 22, 2010 Godfrey Mbaruku, MD, is Deputy Director of the Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania.

In rural Tanzania, we meet Janet whose story depicts the physical barriers to getting to a well-equipped clinic or hospital with a trained medical professional in a timely fashion. Janet must walk five miles in labor to reach a local health clinic that has no electricity, no extra blood supply, no operating room, and no doctor regularly on site. When her labor is obstructed there is no mechanism to transport her to the nearest hospital. We can see in this story that in many rural places, such as the sub-Saharan region, infrastructure, electricity, equipment, supplies, emergency transport and more skilled health workers are needed to meet the growing demands. Category: