Dear Hiromi,
I fully support your statements, it would be great if you culd organise women to stand up and speak for you about their wishes, preferences and expectations about giving birth and the choices they want to make.
Best wishes to you all,
Trudy Klomp, RM MSc
Free Universtiy of Amsterdam
the Netherlands
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Onderwerp: Stop criminalizing midwives in Japan
Dear Mailing list members,
Last week, on 16th September 2014 a midwife was investigated for a maternal death by the police in Japan and the report was sent to prosecutors office. The mother died of postpartum hemorrhage in a transferred hospital following normal birth at a birth centre run by the midwife. In 2006 a Japanese obstetrician prosecuted for a maternal death case and in 2012 a midwife was investigated for malpractice by the police.
The Japanese Midwives Association has no intention to intervene and presents no positive suggestion for improvements in the situation. However I feel that midwives need not be prosecuted by the police for malpractice.
There are speculations among midwives and doctors in Japan. It seems that the Japanese government is trying to destroy midwives and obstetricians working in the primary level facilities serving in the community. They are trying to centralize maternity care into large hospitals. They haven’t updated their ideas of ‘safety’ in childbirth. I believe that Japanese women would like to have maternity care and to give birth near to their home and that is safer for them as well as women in the UK.
I wonder if anyone could give me ideas to stop the government to criminalize midwives who could be just unfortunate or even who make mistakes. There must be other ways to improve maternity care in Japan.
Hiromi Goldman
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