She has built and organized support for a maternity hospital and she is using all of her own funds.
Back in June 1998, when elections were held to the new Assembly, I filmed a report from the Ulster Hospital's maternity suite, which had a view out over Stormont, on the kind of powers the new institutions would wield.
Maternity services at a Cumbrian hospital where a number of babies died are being moved to another hospital because of a staffing crisis.
Standing outside Beijing's largest maternity hospital, a woman who is expecting her first child in August looks frustrated when asked how she plans to feed her unborn child.
Barking MP Margaret Hodge is raising the issue in Parliament and said it was also a "scandal" a new maternity unit at Barking Hospital was still not open.
The Parsis closed their maternity hospital in Mumbai a decade ago because of a lack of births.
ECONOMIST: The travails of a small but amazingly successful community
Plans to scale down children's and maternity services at a North Yorkshire hospital are to be put out to public consultation, it has been confirmed.
St Helier could see the closure of its accident and emergency and maternity wards under a separate review of hospital services in south London.
Previous attempts to re-organise maternity care around a smaller number of hospital units have proved controversial, but Dr Falconer said if women could be convinced of the greater safety they would be prepared to travel to have their babies.
Police believe that on 17 December 1998, there had been a terrible mix-up at the local maternity hospital.
Plans to scale back maternity and child services at a North Yorkshire hospital will be referred to the government.
The report also recommended a scaling-back of maternity services at the hospital.
The current hospital has a consultant-led maternity unit and stroke unit.
An MP has called for an independent inquiry into care at a hospital in east London where five maternity patients have died over the past 18 months.
The midwife-led maternity unit at the Downe Hospital has had a limited uptake from expectant mothers.
Eastbourne hospital would have a stand-alone midwifery-led maternity unit and enhanced paediatric care.
William Hague, the Conservative MP in whose constituency the hospital is located, said the maternity service plans were "a serious blow" to local residents.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, a trade group, has compiled a list of such states: doctors are giving up and one hospital has been forced, after more than a century, to close its maternity ward.
The hospital was ordered to make improvements after the deaths in the maternity unit, where a number of mothers also died.
BBC: Morecambe Bay trust failings prompts watchdog criticism
Cumbria Police are investigating a number of deaths of those who received care at the maternity unit at Barrow's Furness General Hospital.
Accident and emergency and maternity services would continue to be provided at Epsom Hospital, local people were told at a meeting at Epsom Town Hall.
All of this comes after a long running campaign three years ago against plans to downgrade the consultant led maternity unit at the District General Hospital.
It comes in the week maternity levels are being moved from the Furness General Hospital, Barrow, to another hospital because of a staffing crisis.
BBC: More can be done to cut Cumbria stillbirths, experts say
应用推荐