Empowering mothers by preventing injuries
Robert Zinser understands numbers. The economist and retired president for Asia at chemical giant BASF has spent his life analyzing and predicting future trends. So when he initiated a five-year, $3 million pilot project to reduce infant and maternal mortality in Nigeria – a country with the second highest mortality rate in the world – he was doing more than just betting it would make a difference. He knew it would.
“In Nigeria, 70 percent of births are home deliveries. If the labor goes on too long, a woman can suffer a fistula,” an injury that often results in a stillborn baby, causes…
