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08-31-2011, 08:47 PM
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Pediatrician Dr. Joy Lawn credits a quick-thinking midwife with saving her life when she was born in northern Uganda more than four decades ago.
The bush hospital where Lawn's mother was trying to give birth in the mid-1960s had no electricity or running water.
But the midwife attending her was clever enough to know that because the baby had not moved into the right position for delivery after 24 hours of labor, only a Cesarean section would save infant and mother. She sought help from a doctor.
"I survived the odds because people expected me not to die," Lawn said Tuesday in a telephone interview from her base in Cape Town, South Africa. "We need health workers, we need governments not to expect newborns to die."
Lawn, who works with the non-governmental organization Save the Children, and researchers from the World Health Organization, drive that point home in a new study looking at comprehensive global mortality rates for newborn babies.
Published on Tuesday in the journal PLoS Medicine, the study shows that babies under 4 weeks old account for 41 percent of child deaths worldwide.
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Yeah. So how well is our Health Care System working for us now? How is that attitude of not letting kids ride their bikes to school because they wouldnt be as fat doing for us? Our health care system is the most expensive in the world, and these are the results? In the USA, a Diet of Pills and Placebos is apparently supposed to be healthier than a well balanced Diet and Exercise. How is that working out for us?
Someone is paying the bill for these companies profit margins, and we are paying with our lives and the lives of our unborn children.
Pediatrician Dr. Joy Lawn credits a quick-thinking midwife with saving her life when she was born in northern Uganda more than four decades ago.
The bush hospital where Lawn's mother was trying to give birth in the mid-1960s had no electricity or running water.
But the midwife attending her was clever enough to know that because the baby had not moved into the right position for delivery after 24 hours of labor, only a Cesarean section would save infant and mother. She sought help from a doctor.
"I survived the odds because people expected me not to die," Lawn said Tuesday in a telephone interview from her base in Cape Town, South Africa. "We need health workers, we need governments not to expect newborns to die."
Lawn, who works with the non-governmental organization Save the Children, and researchers from the World Health Organization, drive that point home in a new study looking at comprehensive global mortality rates for newborn babies.
Published on Tuesday in the journal PLoS Medicine, the study shows that babies under 4 weeks old account for 41 percent of child deaths worldwide.
Page 1 of 3
(more on link, link broken due to Copyright)
Yeah. So how well is our Health Care System working for us now? How is that attitude of not letting kids ride their bikes to school because they wouldnt be as fat doing for us? Our health care system is the most expensive in the world, and these are the results? In the USA, a Diet of Pills and Placebos is apparently supposed to be healthier than a well balanced Diet and Exercise. How is that working out for us?
Someone is paying the bill for these companies profit margins, and we are paying with our lives and the lives of our unborn children.