Stories of childbirth 60 years ago.Oxfam and the parenting website www.mumsnet. com are calling for stories of childbirth in the UK before the launch of the NHS NHS abbr. National Health Service NHS (in Britain) National Health Service 60 years ago. Maternal mortality in the UK at that time was about 13 times higher than the present day and the call for stories is part of a campaign to help reduce maternal mortality worldwide. The initiative also involves campaigners throughout the UK knitting nine inch squares for a giant baby blanket, with each knitted square representing a mother who did not survive her pregnancy or childbirth. The giant blanket will be handed over to the UK government before world leaders meet in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of in September to discuss progress on the millennium development goals “MDG” redirects here. For other uses, see MDG (disambiguation). The Millennium Development Goals are eight goals that 192 United Nations member states have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015. . |
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