Stillbirth

The policy is to cremate deceased infants but Bulawayo Hospital’s incinerators are not working

In what was the first official estimate of its kind, <i>The Lancet</i> medical journal recently published a major study on the rate of stillbirths.

Mothers who sleep on their backs or right-hand sides the night before giving birth are twice as likely to have a stillborn child.

It has to be one of most devastating tragedies to befall any parent — when a baby in the womb develops health problems and fails to survive.