Slapped, bullied and kicked in the bellies .. Scary world in the delivery rooms

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Women and their families may have low expectations of health care that mothers are entitled to in government health centers, making them accept physical and verbal abuse. A WHO study found that women and health care providers in Nigeria justify slapping women while receiving care to encourage them to pay the child. outside the womb.

This harsh information may be the most humane abuse among women around the world in the operating theater for the birth of a new baby who comes to the world and needs a psychologically correct mother.

Violence in the corridors of hospitals
New evidence from a WHO study published in the Lancet medical journal shows that more than a third of women in four poor and middle-income African and Asian countries have been subjected to slap, ridicule, stigmatization, discrimination, coercive surgery without their consent, use of force during medical procedures, abandonment or neglect by women. Health care workers and other forms of abuse during childbirth in health centers.

The study, conducted in Nigeria, Myanmar, Ghana and Guinea, targeted women aged at least 15 years of age, and tested them in 12 public hospitals in an urban area between September 19, 2016 and January 18, 2018, and observations were continuously taken from labor up to two hours later. Delivery within the hospital, and then interviews women up to 8 weeks after delivery.

The study included interviews with 2762 women after childbirth in 2016, and reached similar levels of abuse, with the result that 13% of the number of cesarean deliveries in these countries without the consent of women, and 75% of vaginal surgeries during childbirth without their consent, 59 In 2016, 38% of women reported having high levels of verbal abuse by screaming, reprimanding, ridiculing, and stigmatizing them for racial reasons.

Fourteen per cent of women were slapped, beaten and punched in hospital corridors, which lasted from 30 minutes before delivery to 15 minutes after delivery.

Some of them were circumcised without anesthesia, and more than half reported that they had not received any painkillers, and 5% of poor mothers were detained with their newborns because they were unable to pay the bill.

Discrimination in hospitals as well
Young age and lack of education were factors that health care workers rely on to choose their mothers' victims, according to the study. Younger women between the ages of 15 and 19 who had not completed their education were 95% verbally and physically abused, indicating inequality in the treatment of women. During childbirth.

According to the World Health Organization's evidence, women around the world are subjected to abuse during childbirth. According to Time magazine, child abuse during childbirth is a global phenomenon, including in developed countries, but these practices are rarely documented and often feared. Women who report these violations.

Previous reports have documented several cases of physical abuse of women in Eastern Europe, especially Romanian women who have been forcibly separated from their newborns for several days, and abusive practices during childbirth have been reported throughout Latin America.

Venezuela was the first country to enact a law against inhuman practices and ban what it termed "obstetric violence" in 2007.

Millions of mothers die
Such studies were in response to inquiries about the rise in women's mortality during childbirth despite scientific advances in medicine, with a process occurring millions of times every day around the world, according to the British Guardian newspaper.

High rates of maternal and newborn mortality in poor and middle-income countries could be mitigated by improving the quality of health care. Care is not limited to the provision of medical supplies and surgical supplies, but includes the fact that women are not beaten and kicked in their stomachs, vaginal incision without their will, Abuses that have been proven to be subjected to women in all countries of the world according to the material capacity of women, which if survived at the time, it will not escape the negative impact on her mental health in the future.

According to the latest estimates of the United Nations in 2018, 303 thousand women die annually during childbirth or as a result of complications resulting from pregnancy, which is equivalent to about 830 women every day, and one every two minutes.

Most of the causes of death were caused by conditions that could have been avoided if the woman had received the necessary care at the health center.

The vast majority of maternal deaths occur in developing countries.One third of them occur in Africa.Nigeria and India alone account for one third of all deaths globally.In the least developed countries, the death rate per 100,000 mothers is about 436, compared with only 12 in rich countries.