Feature: Maternal mortality is high in Bangladesh.

(From United News of Bangladesh)

Dhaka Courier March 4 (UNB): By Nasreen Begum When Rafiza Begum felt the labour pain, her husband, a poor farmer, called a village midwife. The 25-year-old woman started bleeding from the womb after the inept hands of the midwife tore her placenta, an organ that supplies blood and nourishment to the fetus through umbilical cord.

At that stage, the farmer managed a rickshaw van to take Rafiza to a hospital in a critical condition. After she arrived at the hospital, doctors pronounced her dead. They blamed the midwife for the young woman's death. Dipali, an 18-year-old housewife in Cox's Bazar, suffered similar complications …