Nargis Akhter is one of thousands of of Bangladeshi women working as "skilled birth attendants" to help mothers through delivery. Their use over the past twenty years has coincided with dramatic improvements to maternal health outcomes in Bangladesh -- a country where 30 percent of women nationally give birth without the assistance of a doctor, nurse or midwife, according . IMAGES
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00:00I'm going to make a video on it.
00:02I'm going to show you how to make it.
00:04I'm going to make a video on it.
00:06I have to go.
00:13I have to go.
00:20I have to go.
00:27Every delivery is different.
00:29You can learn a lot from each delivery, from your own work.
00:34When I go for every delivery, I get scared of Allah.
00:40I fear Allah a lot.
00:43But when I deliver, I face a lot of problems.
00:48But I don't have any problems.
00:50I can take care of them as long as I want.
00:55I can take care of the mother and the children at the same time.
01:26If you see, the last four or five years,
01:28maternal death was more here, much more here than it is now.
01:32And preventable deaths have been mostly prevented,
01:36like providing our emergency services in emergency care
01:40and referral services as we can use mostly,
01:43using our modern facilities and other medications as well.
01:47And home delivery has been shifted to institutional delivery in some cases,
01:53though the progress is not much in number, but it is significant.
02:13When my first child died, I thought that if I don't go to the clinic,
02:17I won't be able to solve my problems.
02:21So I asked them, if my health is not good,
02:26can you give me some medicine or can I go for a check-up?
02:32Then I told them that I won't be able to go to the clinic
02:35or I will have to donate my blood.