With birthing balls, suspension straps, grass mats and other tools and props that help manage labour pain, the Union health ministry is seeking to revamp delivery rooms in government hospitals to make natural childbirth a stress-free and calm experience for women.
Earlier this month, the health ministry began an 18-month course to train nurses in midwifery to run midwife-led units that the ministry plans to attach to the gynaecology and obstetrics departments in medical colleges and district hospitals with high case load, to improve the experience of care for women having non-surgical deliveries.
The initiative is a part of the ministry’s Respectful Maternity Care (RMC) programme that aims to provide a better environment for women coming to deliver babies in government hospitals.
Health ministry officials say it is an effort towards improving facilities for child delivery and also the care offered to women in government hospitals.
Read more of this in a report by Rhytima Kaul published in Hindustan Times... (Link given below)
