13/04/2024
Brief Information about I Care for Moms (Yatta Maternal Health Clinic) in Caldwell, Liberia West Africa
Liberia faces some of the greatest challenges in the world in relation to access to women’s reproductive health. This gender-based inequality in health care affects both mothers and children. Trained medical professionals attend to fewer than half of all births (41%). For every 100,000 births, 770 women die. Each day in Liberia, approximately 1000 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth (350,000 annually). A child born in Liberia is 220 times more likely to die during its first day than one born in a first world country
UNICEF ranks Liberia in the top five countries for infant mortality. The World Health Organization reported that 27% of babies died at birth; 15% died before they reached one year of age, and in 2012 out 150,000 births 11,000 children died before they reached the age of 5.
Some causes of infant’s and mother’s deaths include delivering without medical assistance, lack of transportation to long distant hospitals/clinics located far from the community, numerous complications in pregnancy, lack of education regarding pregnancy, infant mortality, and infant malnutrition.
I Care For Moms is a non profit organization, established to provide a safe birthing clinic in Caldwell Liberia/ Africa, where women can receive proper medical care and support.
Our services include; a safe and welcoming environment, pre-natal care, conducting a urinalysis, and assessing patient history including current medications and allergies, weight and height evaluation, high blood pressure and fetal heart rate, Malaria and other health illnesses.
Our program involves offering monthly visits until 28 weeks gestation, followed by bi-weekly visits until 36 weeks gestation, and weekly visits until birth. These visits include educating women on symptoms to watch for and signs that they may require medical attention. We also offer antepartum care, intrapartum care, postpartum care, infant care, breastfeeding, nutrition, and home visits
To help support the woman and children in the Caldwell community, pease donate and support us, so as to provide the Caldwell community and its surroundings with a reasonable level of care that is more comparable to the care available in developed countries. You can donate to #1 info@icareformoms.com #2 or mobile money to 0886300480 in Liberia, or #3 to our bank in Liberia account number 01521811231000102…….
