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Provider obstruction: a major threat to critical maternal health services in Northern Ghana

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  • De Trainers 7 years ago

    To begin let me wish you HAPPY EASTER if you are a Christian! Remember to be focused for your year 2017 money-making goals.. If you ate chicken provided by a benefactor this time around, be sure by the next celebration you w ...
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  • nana addo 7 years ago

    What is the methodology used. Is abortion the only cause of maternal deaths?
    How many have ever objected to performing other procedures?
    So PPME conducts research on maternal health without the research division and materna ...
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  • Champion 6 years ago

    nana addo, please read the story again before you comment. According to the writer, PPME was not the organization that conducted the study.

  • John Ghanaba 7 years ago

    Health providers must be made to understand that they are subject to overiding national law.if they are not happy about that then they should leave, or should not have joined the health service in the first place. All health ...
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  • Akua Mansa 7 years ago

    Is abortion legal in Ghana? And if it is not can you fault any Provider for not doing it?

  • Luther king 7 years ago

    This research is fake and only intended to satisfy their paymasters. Elective abortion is illegal in Ghana. Abortion is only permitted when the woman is raped/defiled, when the pregnancy threatens the life of the woman etc. ...
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  • obaa pa 7 years ago

    In a case where the woman is not well enough or incest leads to pregnancy, our doctors should at least refer the patient to or give some advice if they think it's against their moral beliefs. This can somehow reduce unsafe ab ...
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  • Gina 6 years ago

    Desperate women do desperate things how can we stop victimising them?
    We need laws
    Obligate providers and these things will stop once