Journal of Nepal Medical Association (Mar 2004)
LEADER OF THE MA TERNITYCARE: DOCTORS OR MIDWIVES
Abstract
Technology of delivery of health care for developing countries is not a resolved issue. Moreover, maternity care differs from other areas of health care in many ways. Developing countries have to carefully adapt to what has been done in developed countries. Recent debate and data on maternity health care organisation have been in favour of midwifery-led maternity care. Midwifery-led maternity care is described as the best and necessary part of the sufficiently and thus inevitably health producing maternity health care organisation. Key Words: Midwifery-led maternity care, maternity health care organisation, midwives, doctors.