{"id":22659,"date":"2021-12-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edm.ch\/?p=22659"},"modified":"2023-12-07T09:57:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T09:57:53","slug":"health-the-most-beautiful-gift","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/edm.ch\/en\/news\/health-the-most-beautiful-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"HEALTH: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIFT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, more than 800 women die across the world due to complications from pregnancy and childbirth, deaths that for the most part are easily preventable.<\/p>\n<h2>Every day, more than 800 women* die across the world due to complications from pregnancy and childbirth, deaths that for the most part are easily preventable.<\/h2>\n<p>These deaths are often due to lack of information in communities about the habits needed to stay healthy, difficulties to access health care, and the systematic lack of use of health services when needed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/don.edm.ch\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Faire un don \u00e0 Enfants du Monde\"><span class=\"button\">Donate now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Raising awareness and informing women<\/h3>\n<p>Enfants du Monde organises <strong>educational sessions about maternal health in villages and homes for pregnant women and their families<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"edm-quote\"><p>I notice that more and more people are attending our sessions. I touch on many subjects, such as the importance of doing the recommended amount of prenatal checkups or of saving enough money for childbirth and the arrival of the baby.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"edm-author\">Barsha, a health worker in Bangladesh<\/p>\n<p>We distribute information in the <strong>local language<\/strong>, illustrated with pictograms so that all women, even the ones who cannot read, can understand, about the danger signs during pregnancy and about the preventive measures to protect themselves and their baby from COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.oldsite.edm.ch\/images\/stories\/docs\/actualites\/Visuels\/flyers-COVID-19-ELSalvador\/Remise_flyers_COVID19_Salvador_Panchimalco_2.jpg\" alt=\"Remise flyers COVID19 Salvador Panchimalco 2\" width=\"367\" height=\"250\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 367px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 367\/250;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.oldsite.edm.ch\/images\/stories\/docs\/actualites\/Visuels\/flyers-COVID-19-ELSalvador\/Remise_flyers_COVID19_Salvador_Panchimalco_7.jpg\" alt=\"Remise flyers COVID19 Salvador Panchimalco 7\" width=\"334\" height=\"250\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 334px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 334\/250;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Training health workers<\/h3>\n<p>We help improve the quality of health care thanks to a <strong>better continued education of maternal and newborn health workers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Providing access to care services<\/h3>\n<p>In many countries, access to health services is limited not only by distance, but also by the bad state of roads, the fact that they might become unusable during rain season, and the high costs of transportation. To counter this, <strong>we have built houses for pregnant women<\/strong> in El Salvador and Burkina Faso: located next to a health centre, pregnant women who live too far from the centre spend about ten days before giving birth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/don.edm.ch\/en\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"Faire un don \u00e0 Enfants du Monde\"><span class=\"button\">Donate now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">*Information source:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/maternal-mortality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maternal mortality, WHO<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, more than 800 women die across the world due to complications from pregnancy and childbirth, deaths that for the most part are easily preventable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22647,"template":"","news-category":[257],"news-year":[],"class_list":["post-22659","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-burkina-faso-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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