Midwives: Are labour wards turning into torture chambers?

Stories about midwives slapping and hurling obscenities at women in labour are not unusual. Some women avoid giving birth in certain health centres because the midwives run the labour wards like a ‘torture chamber’.
Nurse Esperance Mujawamariya takes care of her patient. (Dennis Agaba)rn
Nurse Esperance Mujawamariya takes care of her patient. (Dennis Agaba)rn
Donah Mbabazi