The overall theme of poverty is highly articulate in Afghanistan, Egypt, Pakistan, and Haiti. Healthcare, transportation, and lack of nourishing food are common for these countries. Weakly developed infrastructure and inevitability of health problems for newborn children are vivid in each video, except Sri Lanka. In Afghanistan, women still have to work even in the late periods of pregnancy. In Upper Egypt, women do not undergo regular check-ups. Thus, they get to the hospital only with severe conditions when it is difficult to help the mother (UNDP Egypt, 2012). The problem of transportations is shown to be one of the biggest challenges in Haiti and Afghanistan for pregnant women to get to hospitals (Harvard University, 2009; UNICEF, 2012). They usually have to go on foot or on the back of a horse, which poses many dangers. Pakistan seems to have limited knowledge and awareness of citizens as the biggest issue of maternal health (Pathfinder International, 2011). In contrast, Sri Lanka was able to improve the outcomes of pregnancy by increasing the level of education, healthcare, and providing the necessary number hospital workers (United Nations Sri Lanka, 2009).
There are many impediments to receiving a good healthcare for mothers in developing and underdeveloped countries. There is an abnormally high rate of maternal death since there is sometimes no access to basic clinical services. Additionally, there is a problem of spreading contraception methods over the undeveloped countries. There are many large families in rural areas, where women often do not survive from delivering a child (Pathfinder International, 2011). Due to the large numbers of children in a family, it is challenging to provide sufficient food, and children often suffer from malnutrition.
Enhancements in admittance to maternal medical services, particularly in professional birth help, add to the decrease of maternal mortality. In low, lower-middle, and middle-income nations, to diminish the motherhood problems, it is important to develop admittance to maternal medical care administrations. This includes pre-birth tests, dietary direction, inoculations, conveyance help by gifted wellbeing workforce, conveyance at wellbeing offices, post-pregnancy medical services. Of these markers, the help by wellbeing staff is critical to speed up the decrease of maternal deaths. In developing and underdeveloped nations, the absence of high-quality wellbeing infrastructure and clinical consideration during and following labor leads to high mortality hazards for anticipating women. Conveyance help given by specialists, nurture, and prepared birthing assistants can save mothers and children. The high number of maternal deaths in certain parts of the world reflects disparities in admittance to wellbeing administrations and features the gap among the rich, middle class, and poor.
References
Harvard University. (2009). Haiti: Maternal mortality [Video]. YouTube.
Pathfinder International. (2011). Pregnancy spacing saves lives (Pakistan) [Video]. YouTube.
UNDP Egypt. (2012). The tuk-tuk nurse-midwife. Reducing maternal mortality in Upper Egypt[Video]. YouTube.
UNICEF. (2012). Reducing infant and maternal mortality in Afghanistan[Video]. YouTube.
United Nations Sri Lanka. (2009). Safe motherhood – UNFPA[Video]. YouTube.