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childbirth is one of the most remarkable and dramatic events the human body can undergo the strain on the muscles organs bones among others is immense however not everyone has the privilege of being able to access the care that's needed globally maternal mortality is the leading cause of death among women and girls of reproductive age in fact the u.s has the worst infant and maternal mortality rate of any high resource country but it's low resource countries like zambia that women are hit the hardest in zambia pregnant women in rural areas consistently deal with limited medical care and as a result often have poor maternal outcomes this film draws us into the world of one of those mothers as she courageously embarks on her journey to successfully
deliver her child this is with grace from national geographic explorer austin meyers okay i'm not after the night that i examined dress so i went home to catch up some rest around 23 hours i had a nook at my door two women were knocking they said they brought a woman in labor so i thought maybe it was best not until they explained no it's just another after examining that's when i saw that this is a serious case the fetal heart was less than 100 the baby was in distress so i had to cut the ambulance though due to network failure the lines wouldn't go through the head was delivered and the shoulders
couldn't rotate when the baby came out it couldn't cry when the baby aspirated in konya there was no suction machine there was only a penguin sucker which wouldn't go deep and remove those secretions had to underback the baby but without good effect the baby died my name is peter axona i am 55 years old now i'm a farmer i normally grow maize groundnuts green beans and some tomato i'm married to grace jeberica and i've stayed with my wife for now 16 years and i have four children with her the fifth is not yet born yes
um to my first wife i've got five children they were supposed to be eight but the three died at an age of their ages the first born daughter was memory she had marelia she died at the age of four years when i lost my second bone i almost lost my life because it trained me a lot friends came to advise me to those other friends that also lost their children why should you lose your life just because of this what has happened to you then the third one immediately she was delivered she only stayed maybe one or three minutes then the infant died to experience death at that age you see your friend playing with his baby i only thought why always on me when my friends are keeping their children but i never took up my life
i didn't lose my faith because i know that death is there what i only did was to get more advices how to keep my state my children and that's what i'm still doing now be me attending to the population of 1061. a clinic officer midwife and a nurse the other one is an eht in neighborhood we need a lot of instruments we need there is a stair in case the baby is born it has fixed here we sustain a baby we need a suction
machine we need catheters to empty the woman's bladder when they're in labor we need sterilization machine but for here katoba we do not have those instruments this building it has solar lighting so in the rain seasons we have to use our phones for lighting we learn to improvise because when there are no things at least you try to think instead of letting a woman to suffer this clinic is just for no more deliveries and a complicated delivery it has just to be referred if the nurse notices that something has gone wrong then the nurse will call the hospital for an ambulance to go and pick the patient okay let me just call the ambulance then where can we go right now we're responding to a call at canada center is about 10 kilometers away from the main hospital
they are calling us for a and patamura okay and they have to come to a hospital where there's facilities for theater and so we then intervene by doing a cesarean section so we have a big challenge because you know we have 39 facilities being serviced by one ambulance a population of close to 200 000 people and these facilities are not like concentrated in one place to go into kartova which is one of our furthest facilities
it takes about 1 hour 30 minutes we have this huge challenge the nurse calls for an ambulance in facility x which is 50 kilometers away says this woman is bleeding and then we have another nurse calling from another facility says i have another one who has failed to deliver so now we are left with a dilemma because you have to decide where do you go to pick the patient the blues
hey um i have a daughter who has completed school maybe she goes up to college she might become a president she might become a minister she might become a doctor do mysteries plan to have more kids after this one no i'm not planning i think
this will be the last kill why do you think this is the last one are there enough that i have that now watching this film i think is something that has brought me some memories ninja turtles me
