Maternity Birthing Kit: Saving Lives
- South Sudan has one of the highest maternal and neonatal death rates in the world.
- The very basic requirements for safe childbirth are not in place
- Pregnant mothers currently need to provide their own scissors to cut the umbilical cord and their own cord tie. (It is not always possible for mothers to provide this).
- If a STERILE maternity birthing kit were available for deliveries, this would reduce the number of mothers and babies dying in childbirth.
- Over 1000 babies each year are born across the 18 clinics that the Salisbury/Sudan Medical Link support.
- We are now able to source kits which can be used by midwives or trained birth assistants to ensure a safer delivery, preventing infection for both mothers and babies.
Approx cost £5:00 each kit.
Pack Content:
- Cotton wool
- Pair of sterile gloves
- Soap
- Surgical blade – to cut the umbilical cord
- Cord tie
- Polythene sheets x 2 (a clean surface to birth)
