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By Kari Barber
Bensonville, Liberia
08 March 2008

As the world marks international women's day, health workers in Liberia are expressing concern about statistics on the deadly risks faced by pregnant women. A recent government study shows that more than 900 out of every 100,000 women die in childbirth.  Kari Barber has a report from Bensonville, Liberia, on what is being done to slow the deadly trend.


A maternal 1 health worker at the Bensonville district clinic shows the room where mothers are monitored following delivery.  Most women in Liberia deliver their babies at home. After delivery, some come to hospitals or clinics like this one to have their babies, and themselves, examined.


Mary Moses walks three-and-a-half hours to this, the nearest clinic, for a prenatal checkup.  But now, only weeks before her due date, she says she will not be able to make the walk anymore.


"I walk, but my back is now giving me a hard time so I cannot walk this distance," she said.


The lack of roads, public transportation, clinics, and a dearth 2 of professionals trained in obstetrics are all reasons, officials say, that so many women die in childbirth in Liberia.


The health system and infrastructure 3 are still devastated 4 following the civil war that ended in 2003.


Health Minister Walter Gwenigale says the government and aid agencies are focusing their limited resources on recruiting and training midwives, who frequently oversee 5 pregnancies 6 when there is no medical professional.


"We need to have about 1,400 [midwives]," he said.  "We have less than 300. So it is a very big problem, and it tells you that when you look at the statistics, it tells you why we need people to do this work.  It is obvious that the women who are delivering are not delivering into safe hands."


Tinapu Toby is one of those midwives who is being trained.


She says she is learning how to handle complications of pregnancy 7.  She says she wishes she had learned earlier.


Two years ago, she was helping 8 her daughter give birth.  There were complications, and her daughter died. 


She says she carried her daughter to the hospital, but it was too late.


Toby says the baby also died.


Liberia has one of the worst maternal death rates in the world.  Health workers say while midwife training will likely help, it could take years before maternal health really improves.




adj.母亲的,母亲般的,母系的,母方的
  • He is my maternal uncle.他是我舅舅。
  • The sight of the hopeless little boy aroused her maternal instincts.那个绝望的小男孩的模样唤起了她的母性。
n.缺乏,粮食不足,饥谨
  • There is a dearth of good children's plays.目前缺少优秀的儿童剧。
  • Many people in that country died because of dearth of food.那个国家有许多人因为缺少粮食而死。
n.下部构造,下部组织,基础结构,基础设施
  • We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
  • We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设,发展各类群众文化。
v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词);摧毁;毁灭;在感情上(精神上、财务上等)压垮adj.毁坏的;极为震惊的
  • The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
  • His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。
vt.监督,管理
  • Soldiers oversee the food handouts.士兵们看管着救济食品。
  • Use a surveyor or architect to oversee and inspect the different stages of the work.请一位房产检视员或建筑师来监督并检查不同阶段的工作。
怀孕,妊娠( pregnancy的名词复数 )
  • Since the wartime population needed replenishment, pregnancies were a good sign. 最后一桩倒不失为好现象,战时人口正该补充。
  • She's had three pregnancies in four years. 她在四年中怀孕叁次。
n.怀孕,怀孕期
  • Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.怀孕早期常有恶心的现象。
  • Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage.怀孕期吸烟会增加流产的危险。
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
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above-quota purchase
alicyclic acid
amphoriscid
Araqua
artemia salinas
autesiodorum (auxerre)
authigenesis
base of neck
bottom ramming machine
burhinidaes
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compressed air installation
context-independent
cuellar
cyberbanks
Cypridea
decision logic translator
deion extinction of arc
depreciation rate of tooling
desose
distance liner
Donzenac
dual detector
duck mold packing
eccentric type pickup
equilibrate
Eschscholtzia californica
event-by-event
exponential subroutine
export labo(u)r power
extenders
fog-navigation
geared brake motor
gebhart
genus lutras
health-consciousness
hercostomus lunlatus
heterogenous graft
Hindostan
holding braking effort
horsecrap
Hutchinson's patch
inhearing
insert film
insurance share
Kidd blood group system
Kodoris K'edi
kuvasz
lakon kabach boran (cambodia)
latent load
leaned
left divisor
liberalizers
licea kleistobolus
lot by lot
Malolo
man-millinery
mannoheptitol
master file table
mazelyn
mine accident
molybdenic acid
nanpa
nature strips
nnfa
objectives of financial statement
Ohiwa Harb.
operator trunk
Origanum dictamnus
paleoepibiotic endemism
peripheral arteriosclerosis
perosplanchnia
planchering
point softening
Pomadasyidae
poor-spirited
reference wedge
self feeding carburetor
shorthandedly
single ported slide valve
Skebobruk
soft margarine
soil metabolism
sound intermediate frequency
spillage oil
Spinacia oleracea Mill.
steel-bar header
stern ornament
stratifiable
surface recombination admittance
Surinsk
telegraaf
threepeater
tisdell
Tombila, Gunung
Trichosanthes quinquangulata
troched
v-shaped antenna
vestibular nuclei
whose'n
wolfhounds
work space layout