Provider obstruction: a major threat to critical maternal health services in Northern Ghana

Provider obstruction: a major threat to critical maternal health services in Northern Ghana
17 April 2017
Source: Mathias Aboba

A study has revealed that access to critical maternal health care service in the three regions of Northern Ghana; Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions is impeded with clinicians refusing to provide some legally prescribed services due to their moral or religious beliefs.

The research known as the Conscientious Objection to Legal Abortion Care was undertaken by reproductive health advocacy network, Global Doctors for Choice-Ghana (GDC, Ghana).

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