Most Haitian women give birth at home, attended by matrones — untrained birth attendants — most of whom arrive equipped with only a razor blade, a piece of string and Latex gloves. The result: more women die during childbirth in Haiti than in any other country in the Western Hemisphere… More than triple the number of mothers in Bolivia, which has the next-worst maternal mortality rate.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1077514--one-baby-s-story-shows-why-haiti-is-no-place-to-give-birth?bn=1
Haiti has the highest rates of infant, under-five and maternal mortality in the Western hemisphere. Diarrhoea, respiratory infections, malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS are the leading causes of death.
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/haiti_statistics.html
Hi Nashika! Thank You for teaching me something new. I would be terrified as a pregnant woman living in Haiti to allow some untrained person with a razor blade to deliver my baby. It is sad and alarming that women in certain parts of the world don't have a choice compared to the women in America. I don't know what I would do in that situation. I was unaware that the mortality rate was that high for pregnant women in Haiti. And the things that some women in America complain about--such as weight, hair, pimples, and makeup...Wow!
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