{"id":201135,"date":"2025-06-28T08:22:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T06:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-firm-raises-alarm-over-weak-emergency-response-for-pregnant-women\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T08:22:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T06:22:35","slug":"nigeria-firm-raises-alarm-over-weak-emergency-response-for-pregnant-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-firm-raises-alarm-over-weak-emergency-response-for-pregnant-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Firm Raises Alarm Over Weak Emergency Response for Pregnant Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">A maternal healthtech company, Birthsafe, has expressed dismay over the gap between antenatal care and emergency response at delivery points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The organisation, which said there was a need to strengthen the reactive care that pregnant women receive, noted that this could be achieved by focusing on emergency obstetric training for nurses and midwives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Founder of Birthsafe Nigeria, Dr Idara Umoette, said the organisation&#8217;s forthcoming training would address such an issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The training will be held on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506270503.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A maternal healthtech company, Birthsafe, has expressed dismay over the gap between antenatal care and emergency response at delivery points. The organisation, which said there was a need to strengthen the reactive care that pregnant women receive, noted that this could be achieved by focusing on emergency obstetric training for nurses and midwives. Founder of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":201136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9582,6990,7559,257,4687,393,6757,5234,6985,254,13849,6524],"class_list":["post-201135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alarm","tag-emergency","tag-firm","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-pregnant","tag-raises","tag-response","tag-south-africa-today","tag-weak","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}