Midwives are important providers of reproductive healthcare in Ghana. There are more than 3,379 midwives in Ghana compared with fewer than 2,000 physicians. While midwives practice throughout the country, physicians tend to be clustered in large cities. As a result, midwives provide the majority of antenatal, delivery, and newborn and postpartum care, including emergency obstetric care, especially in rural areas. Further, midwives provide family planning services, postabortion care, treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), nutrition and breastfeeding counseling, and child health services. (Source, USIAD 2006 Report).
Some expecting mothers in Ghana are uncomfortable to be assisted by male midwives during child birth. This results The Ghanaian government to scrap the pilot project which allowed men to be trained as midwives. Midwifery is supposed to be client centered, providing services according to the preferences of the expecting mothers.
Read below the full story of Adam Amina, a 33-year-old pregnant mother, lay in one of the labor wards at Tamale’s only referral hospital in northern Ghana.
Read more at: http://www.dw.com/en/ghanaian-women-reject-male-midwives/a-37733547
