KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF ANTE NATAL,LABOUR AND POSTPARTUMCARE AMONG TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANTS IN SOUTERN CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA

📄 Project Abstract

Skilled attendants at birth are a proven intervention to improved maternal and newborn health outcomes. In many developing countries where there is often a shortage of trained biomedical personnel, maternal care is usually provided by Traditional Birth Attendants World Health Organization (WHO, 2010). One key intervention to improve maternal health is to ensure that all women have access to skilled care during labour and delivery, unfortunately, less than 40% of Nigerian women give birth with a skilled attendant, this suggest that over 60% of Nigerian women are at excess risk of maternal death, as they do not have access to or utilize available lifesaving services (Graham, Bill &Bullough, 2009).Throughout history, TBAs have been the main human resource for women during childbirth, their role varies across cultures and times but even today, they attend to the majority of deliveries in the rural areas of developing Countries (Imogie,2012).Traditional birth attendants are accessible, c...