Needlessly dying to give birth

Elsewhere in this edition, we carry a heartbreaking article indicating that 68 women died last year in maternity care, due to delays in receiving attention from health professionals.

Some died from health care providers’ lack of skill, absence of emergency triage, poor monitoring, poor documentation, stock-outs and delayed referrals.

A study also found that poor communication between colleagues in the same health facility, which include doctors and nurses within the referral chain and of different specialties, was also contributing to maternal deaths.

Editor's Comment
Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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