"One in 5 mothers in the United States report being ignored, threatened, forced to accept treatment they didn’t consent to, physically abused or otherwise mistreated by their providers during pregnancy and delivery, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)."
👀 New data out from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show a worrying trend: prenatal care rates dropped substantially in 2022—a smaller share of births got 1st trimester prenatal care and a larger share didn't got late or no care compared with 2021 and 2020.
A story about a #hospital in Boston that went into debt, and lacked equipment that could save lives.
Yet another angle to problems with a non-public #healthcare system.
"The Houston Health Department, which declared a local syphilis outbreak last year, lost about $4.2 million of grant funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a result of the federal debt ceiling deal. The money was intended for states and local jurisdictions to train and hire additional disease intervention specialists."
"Shortly after a baby is born, doctors clamp the umbilical cord linking the infant to the placenta, which is still inside the mother’s uterus, and then cut it. New research shows that if doctors wait at least two minutes after the birth to clamp the cord, they significantly improve in-hospital survival rates for premature infants."
'Ghana has achieved a 50 percent reduction in cases of obstetric fistula in five years under the Ghana Obstetric Fistula Prevention and Management Plan (GOFPMSP), the Ghana Health Service has said.'
A woman lost her baby in Nanded. Why couldn’t a new medical college near her home save her child?
Maharashtra government’s scramble to open new medical colleges, without hiring enough doctors, may have contributed to the tragic deaths of 24 patients.
"On July 1, Idaho became the only state without a legal requirement or specialized committee to review maternal deaths related to pregnancy.
The change comes after state lawmakers, in the midst of a national upsurge in maternal deaths, decided not to extend a sunset date for the panel set in 2019, when they established the state’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee, or MMRC."
So Idaho will let pregnant people die without investigation.
"Nationally, congenital syphilis cases rose by an “alarming” 32 percent from the previous year, according to a report published last month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Texas accounted for the largest share of cases, 680, and tied Mississippi for the fourth-highest rate of congenital syphilis in the nation with 182 cases per 100,000 live births."