Adequate midwifery workforce could save 4.3m lives yearly

Africa hosts 204, 500 professional midwives, the highest across WHO regions

An estimated 4.3 million lives of mothers and newborns could be saved yearly if the world could adequately resource for midwifery workforce to aid childbirth, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report assessing the state of the world’s midwifery has stated. Shortage of professional expertise in

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