“Practically Impossible to Get Emergency Obstetric Care in Syria" | Doctors Without Borders

“Practically Impossible to Get Emergency Obstetric Care in Syria" | Doctors Without Borders:

 Margie is a midwife who recently spent seven weeks working in a Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in northern Syria. The hospital includes an operating theater where staff members treat war wounds and large burn injuries, an emergency department, and the maternity unit where Margie was working.

              

        

        

A mother and baby in the maternity department of one of MSF's makeshift hospitals in Syria.

 

            

           

For pregnant women in Syria now, it’s practically impossible to get emergency obstetric care. An MSF midwife talks about how her team provided safe delivery care to women