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In the high Himalayan region, the mortality rate among new-born babies is reported to be as high as one in ten - twenty times greater than that of the UK. The mortality rate for mothers around childbirth is one in two hundred - about a hundred times more than in the developed world.
Much of this is caused by nothing more than a lack of understanding of some basic concepts of health and hygiene. Midwifery With Altitude aims to help these communities conquer this problem by bringing them improved hygiene and a better understanding of health issues, both by teaching local people ourselves and also helping to establish a Nursing School, where local people can be trained to spread the knowledge back to their own villages.
