The cheap plastic drape saving mothers' lives in Nigeria
An 80 cent “maternal drape” is saving women’s lives in Kano, Nigeria — the country where more women die in childbirth than anywhere else in the world.
Key points
- The drape measures blood loss during childbirth; once the level passes 300ml, midwives use massage, oxytocin, tranexamic acid, and IV fluids to encourage the uterus to contract.
- Suppliers in Kano now produce them for Nigeria and neighboring countries.
But the drastic reduction in deaths since the drape’s implementation spurred her to persuade Nigeria’s health minister to introduce it as a national standard of care.
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