Maternal death rate still high in sub-Saharan Africa despite UN goals

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(17 Sep 2010).
Nairobi, Kenya – 22 June2010
1. Pan throughout corrugated iron roofings of Nairobi’s Korogocho shanty town.
2. Wide of individuals strolling through Korogocho.
3. Close-up of feet coming from traditional birth attendant Margret Atieno as she strolls through Korogocho.
4. Atieno going into house, pregnant females sitting in line outside.
5. Close-up on woman’s face as she gives birth, pan throughout to child being held by Atieno.
6. Atieno holding infant upside down and tapping its bottom to get it to cry.
7. Close-up of mother’s face.
8. Infant, still attached by umbilical cord resting on sheet, zoom in.
9. SOUNDBITE: (Swahili) Margret Atieno, Conventional Birth Attendant:.
” A male called Samuel pertained to me, he is not Luo however a Kikuyu religious leader, and he told me that the work that I was doing was not implied for me which God had actually offered me the work of helping ladies to deliver and assist them throughout pregnancies which this is the work that I would do until my death. So I began doing this work and in my dreams thereafter, I would see myself assisting women with their pregnancies alone.”.
10 Close-up of newborn baby, tilt approximately mom.
Kenyatta National Health Center Nairobi, Kenya – 5 July2010
11 Close-up of pregnant female’s legs, tilt as much as Assistant Chief Midwife at the Kenyatta National Medical Facility, Nereah Ojanga.
12 Close-up of pregnant female’s face as she sustains labour discomforts.
13 Ojanga being worn scrubs ahead of shipment.
14 Tilt up from female in labour to nurse.
15 Newborn being wrapped in blanket.
16 Child being weight by nurse.
17 SOUNDBITE: (English) Nereah Ojanga, Assistant Chief Midwife, Kenyatta National Health Center:.
” Those who concern the health center in some cases, after they have been mismanaged out there by the Traditional Birth Attendant, they show up here when they’re in really poor state, most of the time they get here when their children have actually passed away.”.
Iganga, Eastern Uganda – 22 May2010
18 Pan across exterior of Iganga Medical facility.
19 Wide of maternity ward.
20 Nurse counselling numerous expectant moms on the significance of maternal care.
21 Expectant moms listening to nurse throughout counselling session.
22 Nurse walking into a space with a charcoal burner being utilized to boil healthcare facility devices.
23 Close-up of equipment being sterilised in boiling water.
24 Midwife Maryanne Natembo examining delivery devices.
25 Natembo cutting umbilical cable on recently born infant.
Kampala, Uganda -7 June2010
26 Wide of Olive Sentumbwe, the Ugandan reproductive health officer for the World Health Organisation, sitting at desk.
27 SOUNDBITE: (English) Olive Sentumbwe, Ugandan reproductive health officer for the World Health Organisation.
” We are losing about 6 thousand women every year and this equates as about sixteen to eighteen women passing away daily. Practically every hour in Uganda we are losing one mom who is attempting to give birth to yet another life and this is a tragedy. At the very same time we understand we are losing about 126 newborns per day.”.
Iganga, Eastern Uganda – 22 May2010
28 Close up shot of newborn getting cleaned up.
Kampala, Uganda -7 June2010
29 SOUNDBITE: (English) Olive Sentumbwe, Ugandan reproductive health officer for the World Health Organisation.
” If we ourselves can lose a person and we have gone under training for several years, when that individual develops a problem, what about a TBA (Traditional Birth Attendant)? For her she’s just knowing how to receive it, a child that is just being pressed out with normal forces.”.
Nairobi, Kenya, 6 September2010
30 Numerous of tombs at Nairobi cemetery.
Nairobi, Kenya – 22 June2010
31 Close-up of kid strolling through Nairobi’s Korogocho shanty town.
32 Boy bring bundle on his head.
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