Kechri village, Block Todabhim, District Karauli, Rajasthan Meena Kumari Jataw, an auxiliary nurse midwife (ANM) workingfor the last 11 years at a sub center in Rajasthan’s Machri village, is witnessing the perils of the pandemic on the bodies and minds of people every day. Surrounded by the Aravalli mountain range, this agrarian village makes for
While the world’s resources and energy get diverted to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, failure to attend to essential maternal and newborn health services might cost more dearly than the pandemic itself. Jodhpur, Rajasthan Childbirth cannot wait for the pandemic curve to flatten, or for the lockdown to end and life to trickle back to normalcy.
Kamalganj, Bangladesh—Tanjina Akhtar is keen to explain that her labor goes beyond the delivery of a baby. Busy as she is bringing new lives safely into the world and happy as it makes her to see mothers smile when she rests healthy newborns skin to skin on their chests, this midwife’s scope of practice extends
