Hi All, On today's front page of the British newspaper "The Independent," a reliable source I'm told by our British contributors, is the following report:
Headline: "Britain's maternity crisis: A crying shame Subhead: "Too few trained staff, a massive shortage of midwives, and poor resources mean that hundreds of babies are dying needlessly each year and that death rates in childbirth are showing no signs of declining, despite medical advances. Jonathan Owen reports "Published: 23 September 2007 "Up to 1,000 babies that are born dead each year could be saved if doctors and midwives were better trained to spot vital warning signs, according to one of the UK's leading experts on stillbirths. Health experts say the numbers of stillbirths in the UK are alarmingly high 10 times the level of cot deaths and most are unexplained. "New research to be presented at an international conference in Birmingham next week will hear that "sub-optimal care" is a key factor in many of the deaths. In many cases, midwives are having to deal with too many births." The rest of the report is at: http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article2990158.ece Is this what we want in the U.S? Hillary and the left-wing thinks so. Regards, Platt Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
