Inside the world's busiest maternity ward where women sleep five to a bed

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I sometimes despair at people in the first world and their interminable moaning, here is a glimpse of a maternity ward in the Phillipines.


  • 300 mothers arrive at the Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital each day
  • The hospital serves a Manila slum named Tondo, built on a rubbish dump
  • Mothers share a delivery room with at least five other birthing women
  • Head midwife Anna Prebus has delivered around 200,000 babies
  • New babies and their mothers sleep five or more to a bed
  • Hospital subject of new BBC documentary World's Busiest Maternity Ward

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As usual the religion and culture plays a big part in keeping those poor women barefoot and pregnant.

"...a country where 81% of Filipinos are devout Roman Catholic and 30% live below the poverty line, according to the Philippine National Statistics Office. While contraception is legal, the majority, like Lopez, do not have access or the means to afford birth control. But that could all change.

After 14 years in limbo, a controversial landmark legislation called the Reproductive Health bill could bring major changes in the country of almost 96 million people. The proposed law requires the government to provide contraceptives, information on modern family planning methods at public health centers and comprehensive reproductive health curriculum in schools.

National surveys show 65-70% of Filipinos support the bill, but it faces fierce opposition by the country's Roman Catholic Church leaders."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/04/health/philippines-birth-control
 
As usual the religion and culture plays a big part in keeping those poor women barefoot and pregnant.

"...a country where 81% of Filipinos are devout Roman Catholic and 30% live below the poverty line, according to the Philippine National Statistics Office. While contraception is legal, the majority, like Lopez, do not have access or the means to afford birth control. But that could all change.

After 14 years in limbo, a controversial landmark legislation called the Reproductive Health bill could bring major changes in the country of almost 96 million people. The proposed law requires the government to provide contraceptives, information on modern family planning methods at public health centers and comprehensive reproductive health curriculum in schools.

National surveys show 65-70% of Filipinos support the bill, but it faces fierce opposition by the country's Roman Catholic Church leaders."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/04/health/philippines-birth-control

They also have a severe shortage of nurses and doctors as so many end in Europe or the US. THe NHS couldn't function without personnel from places like India and the Phillipines.
 
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I sometimes despair at people in the first world and their interminable moaning, here is a glimpse of a maternity ward in the Phillipines.


  • 300 mothers arrive at the Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital each day
  • The hospital serves a Manila slum named Tondo, built on a rubbish dump
  • Mothers share a delivery room with at least five other birthing women
  • Head midwife Anna Prebus has delivered around 200,000 babies
  • New babies and their mothers sleep five or more to a bed
  • Hospital subject of new BBC documentary World's Busiest Maternity Ward

article-2480170-19152C8700000578-204_634x439.jpg


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...ep-bed-100-babies-born-day.html#ixzz2jFkp4ln0
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

Looks like our future under Obamacare and leftist ideologues. ; )
 
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