What Causes The Heart To Beat?

MATERNITY 'SAFE: STILL A TARGET TO BE ACHIEVED IN MANY COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

CHIPULUKUSU SMAG

La maternita’ sicuramente rappresenta per ogni donna un momento di grande emozione e gioia, tuttavia in molti Paesi del mondo la mortalita’ materna, dovuta a cause correlate alla gravidanza, e’ ancora molto elevata e spesso la gioia della gravidanza si trasforma in una tragedia, che si lascia alle spalle orfani e miseria.
Se consideriamo il numero di decessi di donne per anno per ogni 100,000 bambini nati vivi, i dati sono veramente impressionanti.

PAESI INDUSTRIALIZZATI: 8
PAESI IN VIA DI SVILUPPO: 450

SCENDENDO NEL DETTAGLIO, nonostante spesso we complain of our health 'public, must recognize that our Italy, along with Denmark, Greece and Sweden, is one of the countries in the world where motherhood and' more 'safe.
Below the number of deaths of women per year per 100,000 live births.

Annual number of deaths of women from pregnancy related Causes per 100,000 live births.
ITALY 3 3

DENMARK GREECE SWEDEN
3 3 4

GERMANY FRANCE UK 8 8

Outside Europe:

USA CANADA 7 11 45

CUBA BRAZIL VENEZUELA 57 75

THAILAND 110 450 INDIA

KENYA 560
ETHIOPIA 720
ZAMBIA 830
CONGO 1.100

Le CAUSE DI TALE ELEVATA MORTALITA’ MATERNA nei Pesi in Via di sviluppo e’ multifattoriale, legata soprattutto alla scarsa prevenzione, secondaria a problemi socio-economici.
Per quanto riguarda lo Zambia, si puo’ notare come sia purtroppo uno dei Paesi con la piu’ alta mortalita’ femminile legata a cause correlare alla gravidanza (ogni anno 830 donne muoiono per ogni 100.000 bambini nati vivi!).
Da cio' che posso osservare personalmente, le cause di tale dato terrificante sono molteplici. Innanzi tutto malattie quali l’AIDS, la Malaria e la Tubercolosi , are certainly among the main reasons for death. The poverty 'and then the malnutrition of pregnant women and' other obvious cause in my eyes, although we always focus on child malnutrition. The heavy physical work where women are often subjected, especially in rural areas, associated with inadequate nutrition , often leads to the birth of underweight babies, premature birth, and sometimes abortion spontaneous hemorrhage and death of the mother. Significant factor and 'then the difficulty' to cover the vast country with prenatal care services. Especially in rural areas health centers are few and often far be achieved, especially for a pregnant woman. Therefore, pregnant women are often not subjected to screening for major diseases of risk to the impossibility 'of the latter to reach health centers or stations offices. Similarly, a post partum hemorrhage is often a cause of death for late emergency: too often, because of distance and lack of transportation, the women arrive at the clinic too late. This, for example, and 'was the cause of death of my mother's Joseph, who died young girl for post-partum hemorrhage flow in the office when there was more 'nothing to do!
Many of these deaths could be reduced with appropriate training and information campaign, as well as an increase in prenatal clinics, both in rural and urban areas.
In this view the Mayo- Mwana Project has always operated under both the upgrading of clinics for the monthly monitoring of pregnant women (midwife visits, prevention of malaria, anemia and disvitaminosi, selection of pregnancies risk, tetanus), in the woods as in the city ', both in the training of local volunteers, for health education, to counseling and selection of high-risk pregnancies in the area of \u200b\u200brelevance. Just yesterday we concluded a
C bear Training for 5 volunteers from the slums of CHIPULUKUSU . Usually the training of teachers is done on small groups, to have a better chance 'of individual interaction. These groups are called "SMAG, Safe Motherhood Action Group .
For each volunteer, apart from the course materials and certificate of participation, were given a backpack, an umbrella, a pair of boots and a raincoat, "tools" needed to lo svolgimento delle attivita’ di educazione e screening in una baraccopoli decisamente degradata, quale e’ quella di Chipulukusu.
Di seguito trovate le foto relative all’ultima giornata di formazione, con consegna di certificati e doni. Il corso e’ stato fatto in collaborazione con il Distretto Sanitario di Ndola, nei locali pubblici della periferia urbana di Chifubu.

Nota . Fonte dei dati. THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN /SPECIAL EDITION 2010 (UNICEF Publication).