no i have to draw combat as i'm doing the last super cycle on that to hit or to shop in one thousand nine hundred ninety two decades ago two decades india has actually full effect of its response system when it comes to human cost the stem towels in light of the loss back in ninety nine but when it comes to infrastructure costs india has moved that edge of the slowly it has committed more recently to improving design in the end the office of resilient infrastructure because with global warming extreme weather events or e.w. ease are becoming more frequent but given how slow and arduous the process is of building up infrastructure is the draw to head it's going to be tough on foot into . speaking to us earlier from delhi. you're watching news coming up next reporter labor paints midwives in crisis of the more news at the top of the hour zoe's thanks for joining.

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catarina pereira is a freelance midwife in berlin for seventeen years she helped women give birth but she's no longer willing to put up with the working conditions hospitals are closing their delivery rooms and midwives are waiting those who remain are overworked. as midwives we no longer want to work in delivery rooms and can't afford to five women at once because we come to the well being of mother and child in the business my. goodness nothing here says that. of the as it is. so. this prenatal class in berlin is for parents expecting their second child. here catalina pereira imitates contractions.

that i mean ok three contractions. the last forty follow now was it for the women you know reading about brings back memories it's. kind of the other not my hair and i think you could hear that the contractions are very different they always are no one contraction is the same as another i interview. i had a stock of the midwife knows that such classes are more important than ever in germany because many children come into the world in difficult conditions in many places there's a shortage of midwives. yet it's freelance midwives like katarina who care for women and their babies before and after childbirth. and midwives employed in

hospitals work in a harsh stress environment. that's why catarina has changed her courses in recent years. not only does she help expectant parents prepare for the birth of their child both physically and mentally but also i tell them about was a situation in the hospital that one midwife must often can for three or four women at once and i'm trying to strengthen the women give them a good sense of physical awareness lots of whiteness so they'll get through the birth ok. pushkin can. last bus it's a much bigger house the board my husband for example in the house if we want to create a contractions optimizes the child's position then i tell a woman often i like this only. catarina help to deliver children for seventeen years. but recently she decided to only do three and ante natal care and to give

classes just like the fit wasn't an easy decision to make. as she knows how hard it is for parents to find a midwife we have. already rejections were always the same we have no capacity no place is free the summit that we started looking quite early. to be ambushed we looked for two or three months when my first child was born eight years ago it wasn't such a problem but now it really is the start of this in the movie. and the most telling is the pain of the one last time he was so active let's see if you react to my hands that way again. the money can still hit on the site. samantha mckenna is expecting her third child and katherina is caring for her during her pregnancy. she'll also be present at the birth but only to provide

emotional support as a friend but how about when i think asking why don't we return to assisting with deliveries if i had a really good idea of how i could work in a team outside the hospital and not be on constant cool. but i took this. babies come into the world at any time of the day or night so these midwives are on call twenty four seven but having to be available all the time wreaked havoc on her family life i wanted to phone the good trait just as it should be. freelance midwives pay high liability insurance premiums that's also another thing preventing caterina from returning to delivering babies eleven would be the best hurdle i would face if i went back to delivering babies next year would be where would i get the six or seven thousand euros to pay for liability insurance money ha ha because i need that before i could return and i think that's also the biggest problem facing the young midwives he's just finished training. off the.

freelance midwives who assisted births face skyrocketing costs for liability insurance. they can now expect to pay over eight thousand euros a year and catarina says even if they are partly reimbursed midwives aren't paid enough for their work. so i get one more ball. it makes me really angry because we simply aren't paying for the responsibility that we have that's what i think is so awful that it's also a matter of appreciation of hobby batch had song samantha thinks her midwife is irreplaceable. you just close it to you. how should i put it that you closer to her than to your gynecologist you can talk to her about things you wouldn't with a gynecologist because she doesn't have the time of. katarina says that midwives take the time even if they're not always paid for it. well.

that's a situation country is no longer willing to accept so she's organized a protest but i don't i'm one of the many midwives who aren't willing to accept the status quo any more he founded a group called midwife rebels one thing the midwife rebels criticized hospitals often closed the delivery rooms do to a lack of personnel and turn away women in labor. a sign of something i'm not frustrating enough then when a woman in labor has finally found a hospital to take her may have to live with the fact that her midwife is looking after three or four other women at the same time so she won't receive adequate care that can lead to lots of medical interventions a high rate of says arean sanctions and women who want traumatised by the birth when no longer willing to accept that is what is needed and i wish you lots of

children lots of strength and don't put up with anything. i'd like to protested to alexanderplatz or two or three big squares in. the soundtrack good music and just read off the things with a life stream on facebook. the things are postcards from the midwife rebels latest protest campaign people across germany send postcards to germany's health minister complaining about the lack of midwives close to delivery rooms and overworked birth attendants my exclusive video now it's time. to rena and her freelance colleagues are also suffering from the crisis in the hospitals. it's just that. if women don't receive good care in hospitals for free zones midwives almost always have to make up for this at home. but that's it's not that didn't used to be the case i'm not

bashing the hospitals the midwives they do what they can you get. to the scene but often it's just not enough just so this is soon considering how important this is we're not talking about removing it was just we're talking about the birth of a child outside her and this is. the midwife rebels demands are clear they want a political solution to fix germany's catastrophic birthing system. all right here we don't need high tech we need well rested midwives we like there was and enough of them in the places babies are born that sit on the buses and. all the president if you call someone in the. samantha mccann office is about to give birth and she's lucky to have a well rested midwife at her side oh oh oh oh folks have to remain can't do much

more than help her get through the contractions. one of the hospital midwives bears all of the medical responsibility. here. a short while later and marley is born both mother and child are well. eight days later catarina visit samantha mcconnell and her baby each day. she checks on them both and answers any questions the new mother might have zero. zero zero zero two thousand seven hundred twenty clearance. today catarina has brought an apprentice along cyrus sadaf ski wants to become a midwife. she wants to get an impression of what the job's like and here how and marley's birth went. for the visitors come to my absolute he wanted kids arenas to be that i knew someone i trusted was that that we could do it

that i didn't need to be afraid because i've had problems with the best of my first child and i had no reason to be afraid and she was there to really help me relax to clinton. to finish one. of you know and marley's birth also made it clear to come to reno what she's been missing. i want to do beth's again because i love. misrata so i think it was a real gift for me to be present at one again after one and half is it was like it just rounded everything off. but first she has to find out how to better reconcile her own family life with her chosen profession. and. until then she'll be dedicating much of her time to the fight for better obstetrical care in germany. as most of the trick is that we have must ensure that women in hospitals get one to one care they have a right to a home i think midwives also have

a right to work solely on a one to one basis if we midwives join forces with the colleagues in the hospitals who do incredible work and the freelance midwives and i think we can do it better the sniff never had a better standing in society than we do now and now is the right time to say stop this can't go on. we want this these are our demands and we simply won't work under any other conditions and i think that's possible because. all of that doesn't frighten so you're a side of ski she sees it as a challenge. because it's so difficult right now and they are so many problems you have to consciously choose to do it. we won't get far if we always take another path when a problem arises some really looking forward to being active in taking. greens tears to my eyes come here say or yes we need people like labor.

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