What would you do with 250 million dollars?
Now is the time to reduce maternal mortality to below 30 per 100,000 births everywhere.
I have been reading a lot lately about how to fund the post 2015 agenda of Sustainable Development Goals. And I just read that the World Health Organization is investing 250 million dollars for a new building in Geneva. That got me thinking about whether WHO could work in different ways so they do not need the new building in Geneva, and what I would do with that amount of money. This is what came to mind:
- I would build or upgrade 500 maternities in the places where there is the highest maternal mortality. You can see where in the map above;
- I would ensure that there are waiting houses for women from isolated areas to come to wait until it is time to deliver their babies at these maternities, and;
- I would ensure all these maternities have enough birthing kits to meet their needs.
Let us know what you would do with $250,000,000.
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