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Many women in rural Ethiopia have no choice but to give birth at home, alone, without medical help. Providing maternity waiting homes within health centres, means women have a safe place to stay at the end of their pregnancy, reducing dangerous home births, childbirth injuries and needless deaths.
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Situation
Pregnancy and childbirth are one of the most dangerous things a woman can do in Ethiopia. 12,000 women die giving birth every year, with only 33% of births taking place in a health facility assisted by trained midwives. For women in rural regions there is no choice but to give birth at home, alone, risking the child and mothers’ life, or devastating injuries. The only alternative is a life threatening journey, while in labour, travelling for many hours on foot, or by donkey to a health facility.
Solution
By providing maternity waiting homes within pre-existing health facilities, women in rural areas can travel before the onset of labour and have a safe, supportive and well-equipped place to stay in the final weeks of their pregnancy. Where help and midwives are close by, reducing risks and complications - saving the lives of women and their babies.
