{"id":9136,"date":"2014-05-07T10:57:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T02:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=9136"},"modified":"2014-05-07T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T03:00:09","slug":"ph-one-of-the-worst-country-to-be-a-mother-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/07\/ph-one-of-the-worst-country-to-be-a-mother-report\/","title":{"rendered":"PH one of the worst countries to be a mother&#8211;report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Merlin_Maternal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9139\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Merlin_Maternal.jpg\" alt=\"Merlin_Maternal\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Facebook Page of Maternal Health<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A new report said that the Philippines is <span dir=\"ltr\">among the worst countries to be a mother in Southeast Asia&#8211;and a big factor to it was the recent destruction caused by super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) in 2013.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to the report of<span dir=\"ltr\"> <span dir=\"ltr\">\u201cState of the World\u2019s Mothers\u201d released by international organization Save the Children on Tuesday, May 6, the number of d<\/span><\/span>eaths among children under five years old, mostly within a month after birth, is increasing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese mostly preventable deaths are likely to have risen in number following Typhoon Yolanda\u2014and are likely to have affected newborn girls disproportionately,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Out of 178 countries, the Philippines ranked <span dir=\"ltr\">105th. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the region, it ranked as the fifth worst country to be a mother, falling behind Singapore (15th), Malaysia (68th), Thailand (72nd) and Vietnam (93rd).<\/p>\n<p>No full medical care was being given to up to 45,000 newborns because most clinics have been damaged by the super typhoon, Save the Children Philippines Country Director Ned Olney said.<\/p>\n<p>And so, Save the Children has decided to launch a program aimed at giving away kits with birthing essentials and care of newborns which contain plastic sheets, tarpaulin, clean towels, a lamp, other birthing paraphernalia and a blank form for birth certificates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe simply must all work harder to help communities prepare for disasters and protect pregnant women and newborns, the most vulnerable members of our communities,\u201d Olney said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>With report from Yahoo Philippines<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Photo: Facebook Page of Maternal Health &nbsp; A new report said that the Philippines is among the worst countries &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95,1],"tags":[1479,2947],"class_list":["post-9136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","category-uncategorized","tag-ph","tag-worst-country-to-be-a-mother","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}