The Four Pillars of Safe Motherhood and Maternal Care

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With the clarity that comes from a decade at the bedside, Dr. Hilda identifies the precise points where systems falter and protocols gather dust, which you must know about to save yourself.

Every doctor knows the WHO’s Four Pillars of Safe Motherhood. Yet, as practising clinicians, we walk into hospitals every day where these pillars are visibly fractured. We develop a grim, unspoken expertise in managing these cracks ourselves, but we have too often failed to equip our patients with that same map. We ask for their trust, but we do not always provide them with the tools to verify that their trust is well-placed.

This book changes that dynamic. It is a courageous and necessary act of translation. Hilda takes the elegant framework of global policy and holds it up against the complex, often messy reality of clinical practice. She does so not to criticise, but to clarify. With the clarity that comes from a decade at the bedside, she identifies the precise points where systems falter and protocols gather dust. More importantly, she gives every woman the language to recognise those points herself and protect herself.

Professor Godwin Ndudi Okpara, Consultant Obstetrician and Maternal Medicine Specialist, Canada