Delivery is Life or Death - Liberia

I came across this article from yahoo news, that says women in Liberia has one of the highest death mortality during or shortly after childbirth.

Their country seriously short of the basic and trained midwives to help or even detect problem in those ladies.

Most of the ladies have traditional home deliveries, by local midwives. But most of them mostly untrained and there's only 400 of them to serve a big community. Experts estimated that Liberia needs to have at least 1600 midwives in each community, and they need to build more hospital so those ladies can access in case of emergency.

But I think firstly they should trained those midwives, get them to equip with basic knowledge on delivery or at least detect common childbirth problems, so families can quickly send them for medical attention. Usually, it's the delay that cause their lifes.

Still, it's easy for me to say, but for the action to be taken is going to take long time. Liberia is still a very 3rd world country, and alot need to be done. My heart goes out to those women. Childbirth shouldn't be like a matter of life and death. It's supposed to be joyous. You are welcoming new lifes to the world.........