At the present time, the obstetric practices in the Syrian Arab Republic recommend delivery in hospital or natural childbirth centres if the pregnancy is high risk.

Childbirths in the units of primary, secondary and tertiary networks

When women were asked why they preferred a home birth, 80.8 per cent stated that home was the best place to give birth.

Caesarean sections accounted for 70 per cent of the latter.

Preparation for childbirth

Mean birth interval (months)

Women of Turkish and Moroccan origin generally undergo childbirth at hospital, while home births are more common among ethnically Dutch women.

Since 1996, the Ministry of Health has been establishing natural childbirth centres, which provide free obstetric services, including antenatal care, high risk pregnancy identification, delivery and natural childbirth services, transfer of high risk births to specific hospitals and coordination with such hospitals, as well as post natal care, home visits and health education.

One per thousand birth deliveries of women in the occupied Palestinian territory took place at Israeli checkpoints and 4.1 per cent of deliveries were at home.

Care during delivery

Coverage of childbirth

Over 99 of women of fertile age who gave birth in the year before the research had health care protection during labor provided by an expert.

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Prenatal or delivery

Prenatal and delivery NA

Mothers still die in childbirth.

Also, looked at from the standpoint of the person who attended the delivery, 42.9 per cent of the women who died were attended by a birth attendant (midwife), while only one third of maternal mortalities occurred in deliveries attended by a doctor.

In an effort to improve the health situation of Nicaraguan women, the Ministry of Health included a safe motherhood initiative in its maternal mortality reduction plan.

If the child is born prematurely, the whole period of leave not taken before delivery shall be added to the period of leave after delivery to make up the full 90 days.

Visits in the first month after childbirth

161. The maternity allowance is granted for a period of 16 weeks for the first confinement 18 weeks for each subsequent confinement 26 weeks where a woman is delivered of more than one child in any given confinement.

227. Since 1984, hospital births in the Argentine Republic have increased by 42.5 per cent and, in 1991, they accounted for nearly 96.2 per cent of all births.

The absolute risk of maternal death during pregnancy and the puerperium remains very small, being 1 in 8,423 confinements in the triennium 1997 1999.

The percentile distribution of the female population in fertile age for medical assistance during childbirth, per residence area in 1997, was the following

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18 weeks for each subsequent confinement

Table 12.10 PERCENTAGES OF BIRTHS BY PLACE OF DELIVERY, 1995

Every day, a mother dies giving birth.

PHPN Programa de Humanização do Parto e Nascimento the Program for the Humanization of Labor and Birth

Pregnant women (care during risk free deliveries).

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Maternal mortality among black women is 2.6 per 100,000 births and .003 for white women.

Septicaemia is the leading cause of death in both normal vaginal deliveries and Caesarean sections.

If there have been complications during the pregnancy, during the birth or during the post natal period, as well as in the event of the birth of two or more children, the woman is granted an additional childbirth leave of fourteen calendar days, adding it to the childbirth leave and calculating a total of seventy calendar days.

Maternal mortality figures from the past few years show that the distribution by age has not varied, with the majority of deaths occurring between the ages of 20 and 34.

Prenatal and delivery medical care

Non hospital births 16.6 per cent.

The PHPN establishes the right of the woman in labor to have a companion or attendant present during labor and free visiting hours for her partner.

During delivery, 66 percent of pregnant women are assisted by trained midwives but 79 percent of rural women give birth at home. The 1995 survey shows that 30 percent of pregnant women suffer from chronic energy deficiency.

In 2001, for instance, the proportion of births assisted by a skilled attendant amounted to 76 per cent and the proportion of home births amounted to 44.6 per cent of all births in a sample study, according to the child health survey.

Employers had to pay six months' wages (representing the three months prior to, and the three months following birth) as compensation for violations.

Approximately 12 per cent of births take place in private hospitals.

These community based programs operate out of family resource centres and work closely with pregnant women and teens who may be at greater risk of poor birth outcomes.

According to the data of the Federal Institute for Statistics, in FBiH, in 2001, the number of labor under expert supervision was 25.330 or 99,4 of all labors.

The following table shows the distribution of direct and indirect obstetric deaths.