Dr Franciso Songane, director of the WHO's Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, told the BBC that "Urgent global action is needed to increase investment and political commitment to scale up these life-saving services for mothers and their children".
Dr Franciso Songane stated that the solution lay in more investment and directing funds to local projects that could make a difference. As an example, he cited a project in Bangladesh, where ninety percent of women give birth at home without any medical attention and where more than 1 in 50 of these mothers die.
Women and Children First has projects in three districts of Bangladesh (Bogra, Faridpur and Moulavibazar) and aims to improve maternal and newborn health through community empowerment and health system strengthening.
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