FILM AND DISCUSSION PROGRAMS: Hour of Death

09/11/2009 - 2:00pm

Venues:Green Room

Description: 

This documentary follows two expectant mothers in the process of delivery one from the traditional birth attendant and another in hospital.
In spite of having initially trained traditional birth attendants in modern midwifery skills, the ministry has now decided to phase them out saying that they contribute to the escalating death of mothers during pregnancy and child birth. Does midwifery indeed pose a threat or do they actual have a crucial role to play.