When women quit jobs for babies

The girl-child and female empowerment has been the focus the world over in recent decades, with women being encouraged to scale the greatest education levels and career heights possible as opposed to staying at home taking care of babies.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

9 years ago

BBC

16 Nov

SA court rules on swapped babies

A South African court rules two five-year-olds who were swapped at birth will stay with the families raising them.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

09 Mar

Delivering babies in pitch darkness

We usually have the mothers return to their beds shortly after delivery to make room for other mothers coming in to give birth, but this time we let the mother, Edmunda, rest on the delivery bed due to her traumatic delivery and after­math.

 

11 years ago

BBC

Ghana ultimatum for 'missing babies'

Ghana's health minister gives a hospital in the city of Kumasi 14 days to produce the bodies of five babies that were allegedly stillborn.

 

10 years ago

BBC

Can 'supergeeks' save Kenya's babies?

Can innovation save lives in Kenya's maternity wards?

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

21 Jun

11,000 babies born with sickle cell

>The Women and Development Foundation (Wama) has called upon health stakeholders to support ongoing efforts to fight against Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) because it has reached an alarming stage. Latest reports show that every year 11,000 babies are born with the disease in the country.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

08 Jul

When parents place their babies in boarding school

Joseph* is a five-year-old boy who currently attends Martin Luther School in Dodoma. His grandmother decided that boarding school was a better place for him because his parents were going through marital problems which were affecting Joseph’s wellbeing.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

10 Oct

We need ward for premature babies, people tell Samia

Residents of Kwimba District in Mwanza Region, have appealed to the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) presidential running mate Samia Suluhu Hassani to intervene and ensure the construction of a labour ward for premature babies is completed in the district if the ruling party wins the election.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

16 Jan

Muhimbili saves lives of premature babies

>The Kangaroo Mother Care Unit (KMC) at Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH) has achieved 99.5 per cent success in its efforts to save the lives of premature babies admitted there.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

11 Mar

A million babies who die on their very first birth day

When the commercials appear on television, I usually press the “mute” button or go make myself a cup of tea. But I caught one the other day which left me stunned.

 

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