In addition, we train local health workers in obstetrics and ensure that pregnant women receive competent advice and care in their communities. Within mothers' groups, the positive experiences are to be exchanged, knowledge spread and prejudices against hospitals and doctors reduced. With these funds, we succeeded in facilitating 58,475 safe births last year.
For example, in the case of Urmila Lama from Lamadanda, Nepal. "My in-laws were against my decision to deliver my second child in a hospital," says Urmila. This was despite the fact that she almost lost her first child due to complications during birth; she had severe bleeding and had to be taken to hospital. It was only thanks to the knowledge imparted to her in the mothers' group by FAIRMED health worker Rashmila that she was able to convince her parents-in-law not to follow the tradition of home birth and to give birth to her child at home.
