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“ We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once” . These are the words of United States of America’s 30 th President, John Calvin Coolidge Jr. This statement has never lost its flavour especially when applied to a critical subject such as health.   Firstly, it should be known that there is no country with the perfect health sector, equally there is no country that can cure all of its unhealthy people. However there are health care systems that can be termed as the best.      Every country on the planet today, regardless of its development status, strives to have a health system that delivers quality health care for its people and takes steps to design appropriate health policies to that effect.   This is simply because it has a significant impact on not only the general health of the citizens but the country’s economic situation. Most countries have realised that delivering quality health care cannot be achieved without effective invo...

A recent Clinical audit conducted at University Teaching Hospital for Women and New- Born and Mansa General Hospital in Zambia has revealed that the number of Midwives able to use the partograph is improving, but that some midwives still do not pay attention to it.   A partograph, which is an essential tool for decision making, is a graphical record of the observations made of a women in labour. The audit was conducted by Lugina Africa Midwives Research Network (LAMRN) Zambia which is part of a regional LAMRN grouping aimed at improving and increasing midwifery research and evidence-based midwifery practice in the Eastern, Central and Southern African region.       A midwife examining a pregnant women   The clinical audit conducted at the two hospitals from 2015, to determine the level of knowledge and practices that skilled attendants had on utilization of the partograph, also revealed that utilization of the partograph is a challeng...