Centralisation of childbirth units is also set to lead to downgrading at Yeovil hospital in Somerset, and also at as yet unidentified hospitals in Surrey, Birmingham and Solihull and Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, among others.
Supportive care, including the concepts of 'continuity of care' or 'one-to-one-care' cannot be guaranteed in German hospitals, and women in busy childbirth units might be left alone for long periods of time.
The nurses pointed to the lack of good communication between professionals in childbirth and postpartum units.
But those in Egypt spend an average of just half a day in a maternity unit after childbirth.
The hospital was chosen deliberately because women are allowed to be accompanied by their husband or another person during labour and childbirth inside its birthing unit.
There were ten healthcare units for childbirth (of which five public service).
The subsequent Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) program I (1997 2004) (9) and it's successor program, the RCH II (launched in 2005 1010) continued efforts initiated under the CSSM to strengthen referral units for childbirth and promote institutional delivery.
The study participants were 16 men who came to the hospital to visit their spouses/partners who had been admitted with severe complications of pregnancy or childbirth to the high-dependency unit.
