Issue on Child and Maternal Health Care
Cherry Ann Z. Jara
“Ang Ina”
“ ‘Ang Ina’ relates two facets of maternal health : child health and single motherhood. The glimpse into maternal and child care takes into consideration that there are social, political,economic, cultural and environmental factors that serve as barriers to raising healthy, positive children. Then, the story focuses on the trials of motherhood and single parenting.”
These were the exact lines written on the synopsis of the video- documentary. Truly, several factors are contributing to the multiple burdens of mothers when the issue of maternal health and child care is concerned. As mentioned above, one of these factors is in the social aspect; mothers of today are at risks during child birth due to hemorrhage (the topmost cause of death among mothers) where uterus is not contracting firmly after delivery. In some cases, there is a retained blood clot inside the uterus which disallows a firm, tight contraction. Manually expressing the blood clot by squeezing the fundus will usually control bleeding from this source. Statistical study shows that 230 women for every 100,000 live births die because of this maternal occurence. Countless mothers are losing their lives in just a single glimpse without given the chance to fight. What made it more sorrowful is the fact that this sudden death would yield a great effect on the child’s development. It’s hard to live without a mother; no one would pamper you and comfort you in everyday living.
After this social aspect enters the political and economic phases. This two are somewhat related because they tackle same issue of maternal and child resources. Unfortunately, child and maternal health care in the country is not the top priority project of the government. There are lesser number of midwives, lesser facilities and expensive hospital bills that an ordinary man can hardly afford. The government keeps on building infrastructures, implementing laws trying to alleviate the economic
“Ang Ina”
“ ‘Ang Ina’ relates two facets of maternal health : child health and single motherhood. The glimpse into maternal and child care takes into consideration that there are social, political,economic, cultural and environmental factors that serve as barriers to raising healthy, positive children. Then, the story focuses on the trials of motherhood and single parenting.”
These were the exact lines written on the synopsis of the video- documentary. Truly, several factors are contributing to the multiple burdens of mothers when the issue of maternal health and child care is concerned. As mentioned above, one of these factors is in the social aspect; mothers of today are at risks during child birth due to hemorrhage (the topmost cause of death among mothers) where uterus is not contracting firmly after delivery. In some cases, there is a retained blood clot inside the uterus which disallows a firm, tight contraction. Manually expressing the blood clot by squeezing the fundus will usually control bleeding from this source. Statistical study shows that 230 women for every 100,000 live births die because of this maternal occurence. Countless mothers are losing their lives in just a single glimpse without given the chance to fight. What made it more sorrowful is the fact that this sudden death would yield a great effect on the child’s development. It’s hard to live without a mother; no one would pamper you and comfort you in everyday living.
After this social aspect enters the political and economic phases. This two are somewhat related because they tackle same issue of maternal and child resources. Unfortunately, child and maternal health care in the country is not the top priority project of the government. There are lesser number of midwives, lesser facilities and expensive hospital bills that an ordinary man can hardly afford. The government keeps on building infrastructures, implementing laws trying to alleviate the economic