This short film has an African setting. It focuses on the most basic priorities essential for the safe delivery of a baby. It features traditional African birth attendants assisting a woman giving birth. It emphasises the necessary equipment, methods of sterilisation and personal hygiene that are essential even in remote rural locations. It leads the viewer through the process of normal childbirth, clearly illustrating at each stage the specific requirements of the birthing attendant.
This film is part of a series of training films designed for TBA and nurses working in developing countries.
This film is part of a series of training films designed for TBA and nurses working in developing countries. If you wish to know more, see the corresponding training package or even better help us in making more films for a good cause please login into the web site of medical aid films (Registered UK Charity No 1121578): www.medicalaidfilms.org.
Hospital is better but only if you can afford it which is not the case for 90% of women giving birth in developing countries!!! I suggest you volunteer to go to help in a refugee camp in Kenya or Somalia to graps the reality of what life is for the vast majority of women living on our planet.
medicalaidfilms 6 months ago