Midwives provide maternity care from early pregnancy to 6 weeks postpartum.

reimbursement of salary for the time of maternity and extended maternity leave and for the employed parents' or person who adopted (adopter's ) absence from work for the purpose of child care,

Working women received special care during maternity and in retirement, and Viet Nam was one of the countries that allowed a longer period of maternity leave than the minimum stipulated by ILO.

Under article 33 of the law on public health care, maternity in the Republic is encouraged and protected by the State.

Maternity leave

Maternity Insurance

Protection of maternity and prevention of discrimination against women based on maternity

Women are entitled to maternity insurance, which includes a hospitalization grant, a maternity grant, a birth allowance and a maternity leave allowance.

In the context of the current reform of the health sector the Agency was also working with the Government to develop a national strategy for maternity care.

Maternity Leave Entitlements

9.2.2 Maternity leave

The West Pakistan Maternity Benefit Ordinance, 1958. The West Pakistan Maternity Benefits Rules, 1961.

Pregnancy and Maternity Leave

Maternity and paternity leave

The following statutory provisions exist in the area of maternity benefits The Mines Maternity Benefit Act, 1941 the West Pakistan Maternity Benefit Ordinance, 1958 the West Pakistan Maternity Benefits Rules, 1965 and the Provincial Employees Social Security Ordinance, 1965.

The law recognizes the importance of maternity as a social function and provides generous maternity provisions.

To this end, continued improvements will be made in their access to family planning information and services, the quality of prenatal care, the proportion of hospital births, the promotion of care for complications of childbirth and the operation of maternity houses (casas maternas).

Amendments to Manitoba's Employment Standards Code (http web2.gov.mb.ca laws statutes ccsm e110e.php) to provide for up to eight weeks of unpaid compassionate care leave and to provide better protection for workers returning from maternity, parental or compassionate care leave Basic foster care rates were increased by 2.5 percent effective July 1, 2003.

Nicaraguan legislation includes maternity protection.

Special measures to protect maternity

Convention No. 3 Maternity benefits.

Special Measures Aimed at Protecting Maternity

Special Measures to Protect Maternity (4.2)

Rule 106.3 Maternity and paternity leave

Rule 206.7 Maternity and paternity leave

right of woman to shorter working hours after the expiration of maternity leave for baby care according to the findings and opinion of the authorised medical doctor (Articles 70 79 of the Law).

Maternity leave cannot be distributed between parents.

14 neighbourhood maternity homes, 4 maternity reference units and 3 specialized centres (tuberculosis centre, leprosy centre and reproductive health centre at Niamey)

In this instance, it is also necessary to emphasize that the reimbursement of pay for the time of maternity leave is excluded from the health care system, and is transferred to the social rights sphere.

From the original 'alternative' style of midwifery in the 1960s and 1970s, midwifery practice is offered in a variety of ways within regulated provinces midwives offer continuity of care within small group practices, choice of birthplace, and a focus on the woman as the primary decision maker in her maternity care.

Protecting maternity and facilitating workers with family responsibilities

Referring to the high rate of maternal mortality, she noted that the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare had set up a safe maternity initiative emphasizing prenatal care, quality, safe birthing techniques and family planning.

Cash benefits for maternity are also paid to all working mothers who are not entitled to maternity benefits from an insurance fund or are uninsured.

Operating in the Republic to provide medical care to women are 442 hospitals, 1,025 outpatient polyclinics, 13 maternity homes and 631 women's counselling centres, children's polyclinics, outpatient facilities and other treatment facilities that have women's counselling centres.

In order to guarantee that the woman knows in which maternity hospital she will give birth, the Program instituted a linkage between the institution where she receives her prenatal care and the institution where she gives birth.

Pre Post Natal Services Delivery Rooms and Maternity Wards

Women workers are of course entitled to maternity benefits.

1 maternity home for 24,505 women of childbearing age

At the end of maternity leave, if a woman wishes so, she may be given child care leave until the child reaches the age of one and a half, with an allowance paid over that period of time.

In 2003, 15,900 women were absent due to maternity leave.

Indeed the provisions relating to maternity leave are quite generous.

She is not likely to get any maternity benefits etc.

Two new pieces of legislation address the issue of maternity.

There companies that do not have a single woman in the labor force, and the usual argument is that when pregnant, women often do enjoy a 60 day maternity leave and other absences during prenatal care and breast feeding.

MSPAS has also taken action to reduce maternal mortality, such as the establishment of cantonal maternity clinics and maternal and child comprehensive health care centres, and the strengthening of the programme to extend coverage in areas identified as critical.