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Dutch gynecologists want specialised natal care

births. They say midwives are reluctant to intervene when women in labour get into difficulty and therefore intervention comes too late. Midwives vehemently dispute this claim. Around 30 percent of all babies are delivered at home by midwives. If there are complications the women are rushed to hospital ...

Press Review Wednesday 21 October 2009

, gynaecologist Gerard Visser states that babies are dying unnecessarily in the Netherlands because midwives ... the womb. And the chairperson of the Midwives Association says "Complications rise very slightly ...

Press Review Wednesday 30 December 2009

the statistics were interpreted, the health minister asked a group of gynaecologists and midwives to look ...

Press Review Monday 23 November 2009

that midwives wait too long before calling for specialised help. They also said that the lack ...

Genital mutilation persists in Egypt

circumcised by doctors instead of barbers or midwives. Because of this female circumcision has become ...

Press Review 13 October 2009

this issue, one of the midwives involved in the research is planning to organise information evenings ...

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