Midwife-Led Birth Centres

MLBCs are run by highly skilled teams who help women with uncomplicated pregnancies give birth in a comfortable environment where they can feel at home. Read more about how to open, run and staff an MLBC, and more.

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Midwife Smrity Biswas is doing Fatema’s pregnancy routine checkup. She does routine examinations in the female ward and attends to newborn babies and mothers. Keraniganj Upazila Health Complex, Bangladesh.

4 January 2024

Professional Midwife-Led Care in India

The midwifery profession, as defined by the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), is new in India. India, like many countries is moving towards embedding midwifery into its health system as a way to improve sexual, reproductive, maternal and newborn health outcomes.

Education, Essential Competencies, Midwife-Led Birth Centres, Model of Practice, South-East Asia