Lots to learn from Carol Perks

I am inspired to write about Carol Perks, who works for Save the Children in northern Laos.   Her presentation here is inspirational: she has done so much to make birth … and life … safer for people in the northern Sayaboury Province.

The more I read, they more I know that I have so much to learn from Carol. The systems that she and Lao health workers have set up in the first province is being replicated in a second province.

Here’s a little from this article about her work:

If you want to stop babies becoming sick and dying in remote villages in poverty-stricken Laos, you put your faith in science and pragmatism, not superstition. You set up a primary health-care program. You teach the village midwives to do away with traditional birthing methods: no more cutting the umbilical cord with the first sharp implement to hand…