According to author, Christian Nordqvist, of Medical News Today, South Africa has a high maternal death rate due to “the current lack and oversight and accountability for recurrent problems in the health system and abuses carried out by medical staff that is allowed to continue.” (Aug 8, 2011)
Some of these oversights include, but are not limited to:
women experiencing physical and verbal abuse
women in labor being turned away from the hospital
doctors and nurses soliciting bribes to deliver
mother and newborn not receiving medical care after birth
migrants undergoing C-sections without consent
Retrieved from: http://www.medical newstoday.com “The Shocking Truth About
South Africa”
Mrs. AngielenaECE 