Short Film: The Shocking Maternal Healthcare in Rural Zambia
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- Опубліковано 25 кві 2022
- Rural Zambia is known for some of the highest rates of infant and maternal mortality in the world. We follow Grace Chibilika as she embarks on the incredible journey to deliver her child.
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Childbirth is one of the most remarkable and dramatic events the human body can undergo, the strain on muscles, organs, bone, among others, is immense.
However, not everyone has the privilege of being able to access care needed. Globally, maternal mortality is the leading cause of death among women and of girls of reproductive age. In fact, the U.S. has the worst infant and maternal mortality rate of any high resource country.
But it's low resource nations, like Zambia, that women are hardest hit. In Zambia, pregnant women in rural areas consistently deal with limited medical care and as a result, often have poor maternal outcomes.
This Seeker Indie film is a poignant story that underscores why every pregnant person deserves the basic human right to a safe pregnancy and childbirth.
This is With Grace from National Geographic explorer Austin Meyer.
#Zambia #MaternalHealthcare #Moms #Babies #Documentary #Seeker #SeekerIndie
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Thanks for watching! What was your childbirth journey like? This film is part of our 2022 Seeker Indie showcase, so look out for more films next Tuesday.
I was 2 weeks early, 8 lbs, and my mom had little to no issues, including little pain if any. That was the same for my brother, i was in the car when he was born and he was 10 lbs and my mom was silent compared to how i have seen others in videos on this subject.
my grandmother would have had some stories. She was a midwife in rural Zambia for 50 years.
If I remember to talk with my relatives about this video, I'll recommend they get in touch with you. Some of them remember her better and at least three of them gave birth to their own kids in the same clinic where she worked.
I wish you didn't call this shocking. It's condescending. I get the intention but there are many redeeming qualities outside of the cultural sphere of western influence.
This brought tears to my eyes. I am obgyne nurse myself and I cannot imagine working under those kinds of conditions. The healthcare workers there are truly amazing. I was so moved when the husband was praying so hard for his wife. And the sheer joy of the family for both mother and child simply surviving. Amazing production. More people should be made more aware of these stories.
Thank you so much for watching and for this comment, Zee. As the filmmaker of this story, it means a lot to me that you took the time to watch it
Yet you'll find the person in charge of that province gets a new car each year. We have the same issue in Zimbabwe.
@BaltimoreAreaTech I find the US is worse, it's just legal
@BaltimoreAreaTech 😂🤷🏾♂️
That's horrible! Women deserve far better!
Not only am I Zambian but I'm a health care professional. Thank you for doing this, ... will be the guy who shares this with everyone I know.
Thank you, Donald. As the filmmaker of this story, I am very grateful
I am so grateful to all the hardworking healthcare providers who do their very best to ensure the lives of our people receive healthcare. Zambia is such a beautiful country.
I think the husband is really sweet and supportive.
As he should
I agree! At least he was there! More than I can say for my 5 births!
This is a lovely documentary highlighting the issues affecting service delivery and how they impact maternal health in the rural areas. Great job to Dr. Job Mwanza (my senior) and the team for the service you render to our people. Thank you to the production crew for this professionally done documentary. I salute.
Thank you so much, Dr. Wezi Sunkutu. As the filmmaker of this story, I really appreciate your thoughtfulness
This was beautiful. Such a lovely family with caring parents who love their kids.
Thank you for watching, Faith!
This is so moving. My eyes are leaking.
Thank you for watching!
To the people aksing "why make babies if you are so poor"
Truth is this how humanity survived. Its encoded in our genes. Best thing to do to survive when your life is so hatd is to have many babies. So that a few can survive .
That being said , in 2022 , there is a balance to find obviously.
How is having many babies the best thing to survive when you're poor???
@@kubush “ to survive” means survival of your seed , say a guys has 1 kid unfortunately the boy dies in a car accident while the dad is in 60s thats it your seed is gone. On the other hand as in africa the mortality is more so they give give birth to many kids to let their seed survive.
@@famlify5596 Yeah, maybe if you live in abject poverty, you shouldn't have seeds at all.
If you are poor you don't have access to contraception or even abortion...
It's not surviving.
In rich religious family where contraception is prohibited you often 7+ children....
@@kubush Those countries also don't have access to birth control and due to patriarchal structures of the culture/country/religion, women don't really have a lot of choice in the matter. Really, it's such an ignorant comment to make in these types of situations.
I love the terms high- / low- resource vs developed/underdeveloped or 1st/3rd world.
That doesn't make sense though. Unless you mean, the developed nations are the low resource countries and the underdeveloped nations are the high resource countries. Because the developed nations get all their resource from the developing nations they have destroyed throughout history.😅
This is a beautiful family that is full of love. I enjoyed this doc.
they deserve much better. We must teach them every technology and social values available, make sure they thrive in peace and wealth
I feel bad I'd love our country to change for the better...
Beautiful ❤the love shown to eachother is precious ❤
Very interesting documentary
Interesting. That baby was really cute.
I wonder why countries like this can’t provide better medical care
How can we donate? @seeker
Beautiful ❤
The reality of the maternal health care maybe shocking, but the documentary was not shocking at all. I was kind of expecting something shocking to happen....
I think you are among the 99% of the foreigners who didn't even heard about the conditions of tribes in Kerala (especially in Attappadi), which is far more worse than many of the african countries.
9:45
Is birth control or condoms available to them?
It sure don't look that way. 🐝
Of course. Every woman has the ability to track their cycle and most cultures have traditional herbs when needed. Unless her husband is abusive, it seems they want their children. Life always wants to perpetuate. 🤷🏽♀️
1:38 "Breathing?" Dear translator, you must have mixed something up.
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Yup! I sure she must have said something else 1🤦♀️
Don't babies inhale and exhale amniotic fluid, as practice for breathing?
@@paru-chinbaka5214 just had multiple ultrasounds and they would always say.. "he's doing great job practice breathing."
Not sure if they can determine that with the instruments they are using
@@paru-chinbaka5214: Yes, fetal respiration.
Uhm, I'm Zambian and yeah, the health care here kinda sucks a lot
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8:16 it's kinda concerning that he said "i got advice on how to keep my children" rather than "i got advice on how to keep my children and wife healthy so that this doesn't happen again"
i hope he's not more interested in feeling like a father with children just because his friends are playing with their children and he feels like he's missing out on something rather than trying to have healthy and planned pregnancies with his wife and vaccinating his children for avoidable diseases like malaria
What vaccination is there against malaria?
You're really overthinking this...🙄
Malaria vaccines are not available in most of Africa
@@TomikaKelly No. The OP is definitely not thinking. 🤦🏽♀️
Even better Short Video: The shocking mutilation of Baby Boys in America.
lol, so true.
You guys are as annnoying as vegans.
Doesn't the fact we have such trouble doing what our bodies were designed to do shows we might be do something wrong. Maybe aquatic ape theory.
Water births
Of course it means that. Life is supposed to be difficult, that makes those who do well more refined and that means a higher chance their descendants get to have that refinement. The medical system is almost completely based on false assumptions, setting broken bones and other forms of repairing damage are the only areas i can not see massive flaws in, it allows for those who would have normally been weeded out because they could not make the cut to survive and reproduce. Over time that means any population that does that becomes weaker over all, eventually setting itself up for extinction with increased suffering as it approaches that point. It just goes to show how short sighted humanity is.
@@patryn36 why humans such hard birth compared to other species why didn't we adapt to different posture by now
no, it's the punishment given to women in Genesis 3:16
Seriously though - regardless of whether that story is pure history or pure myth - some earlier human than us thought that story made sense.
@@davidh4374 sorry but genetics top any article of faith, faith is the realm of those who do not understand and yet they still try to explain.
@@patryn36 I absolutely agree with you.. the over medicalization of our species will be our demise.. it's amazing more people dont see this.
not only women give birth
Hahaha!
Shut up only women gives birth and it's a fact it's called biology
What a stupid thing to say.
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Disliked the moment I heard the word 'privilege'. Same sentiment of other comments - we have our own problems.
Don't worry you mansplaining little contrarians, I watched anyway.
"My opinion is entirely dictated by buzzwords and I am easily manipulated."
@@shitlordflytrap1078 Straw Herring.
If you didn't go through this when having your kid then you ARE privileged...🙄🙃
@@TomikaKelly yes, but is such "privilege" a bad thing to have? THAT is where the political implications exist around the word used in this context.
I feel for them but we got our own pproblems.
This isn't about "our own problems" it's about THEIRS...🙄
your point is?
You don't want to do anything about this problem yourself?
You don't want them to spend time making documentaries about other people's problems?
Something else?
Wtf
These people need to do something to make more money and get more resources. Stop sitting there in your hut and having 8 children. Other countries figure it out and don’t need endless charity from others.
Could you be even more condescending please? "Other countries have figured it out" lol, as if. They simply had a sufficient head start that allowed them to exploit "poorer countries" and keep them that way. The only real difference between you and them is that you were born in a "rich country", but I can guarantee you that you would not be doing any better if the roles were reversed and you had been borned in Zambia.
Wow. You’re telling the farmer to do something other than farm?
100% sitting in a country that exploited and continues to exploit Zambia to this day lol. Zambia is improving in this regard, that's why the focus is on the _rural_ areas, but ofc Google is hard for the masters of the world.
Either, you’re the most ignorant, uneducated, unaware, self-absorbed, uncaring, privileged person who lacks empathy…or you’re a literal child commenting on YT.
@@holocene2164 so the only way a country can have money and be productive is to exploit poor countries? Well I guess it’s hopeless for these people then thanks for the info.
I'm not going to lie I hate these movies. I'm not going to read the subtitles on UA-cam.