Community organizations in the Bronx are pushing for a birthing center to help curb the high pregnancy mortality rates women face there. ShoshBedrosian has the story:
Community organizations in The Bronx are pushing for a birthing center to open in the borough, which they say could curb the high pregnancy mortality rates women face there.For the last year, Flores, founder of The Birthing Place, has driven around neighborhoods to help expecting mothers and families.The team provides education for expecting mothers, and hopes this van can soon roll into a full time out-of-hospital birthing center.
And the Womb Bus travels all across the borough and they say within the last year, they've reached over 800 families in the Bronx. They say this is the outreach that's making a difference until they're able to finally put a permanent center in. "This is really about writing a wrong, it's about correcting the system, it's about making the system more equitable," said Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson.
"I think its a combination of a poor health care system and a system that hasn't always been accessible to many black women," said Gibson.
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