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Facilities for childbirth include: A maternity ward, also called maternity unit, labour ward or delivery ward, is generally a hospital department that provides health care to women and their children during childbirth. It is generally closely linked to the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit and/or obstetric surgery unit if present.
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Mariupol hospital airstrike. / 47.09645; 37.53373. On 9 March 2022, the Russian Air Force bombed Maternity Hospital No 3, a hospital complex functioning both as a children's hospital and maternity ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, [1] during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, killing at least four people and injuring at least sixteen, and leading to at ...
Alta View Hospital hostage incident. Coordinates: 40°34′40″N 111°51′14″W. The Alta View Hospital hostage incident began September 20, 1991, when Richard Worthington, armed with a shotgun, a .357 Magnum revolver, and sticks of dynamite arrived at Alta View Hospital in Sandy, Utah, in an attempt to kill Dr. Glade Curtis, who had ...
Fire in the Maternity Ward is a 2019 Netflix stand-up comedy special by American comic Anthony Jeselnik, his second Netflix stand-up special after Anthony Jeselnik: Thoughts and Prayers. In Fire in the Maternity Ward, directed by Shannon Hartman in New York City, Anthony Jeselnik talks about his grandmother's dementia, dropping babies and more.
A birth center presents a more home-like environment than a hospital labor ward, typically with more options during labor: food and drink, music, and the attendance of family and friends if desired. Other characteristics can also include non-institutional furniture such as queen-sized beds, large enough for both mother and father, and perhaps birthing tubs or showers for water births, an ...
Ignaz Semmelweis. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis ( German: [ˈɪɡnaːts ˈzɛml̩vaɪs]; Hungarian: Semmelweis Ignác Fülöp [ˈsɛmmɛlvɛjs ˈiɡnaːts ˈfyløp]; 1 July 1818 – 13 August 1865) was a Hungarian physician and scientist of German descent, who was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures, and was described as the "saviour of ...
A maternity hospital is a hospital for the care of newborns and of mothers giving birth. Maternity Hospital as a name may mean: Ripley Memorial Hospital (Minneapolis, Minnesota), a former hospital, named "Maternity Hospital" from 1886 founding to sometime in the 20th century. Brooklyn Hebrew Maternity Hospital, in New York, formerly known as ...