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The aim of the Project is to strengthen the base for the improvement of parturient women rights in Lithuania. Although Lithuania’s quantitative indicators of birth outcomes are high, a significant number of women remember their births as a negative or even traumatic experience. Women in labour are a vulnerable group in two ways: as women in a rather patriarchal society, and as patients at a very sensitive time during childbirth.
In the course of the project, an information campaign on birth experience in Lithuania will be carried out: a large-scale comprehensive survey of mothers will be conducted, the collected data will be analysed, systematized and presented on a dedicated website and published on social media and mass media. Also, during the round table discussions with the stakeholders and the public presentations in various Lithuanian cities, we will seek solutions to improve the situation and to prepare recommendations for changes in policies and procedures. Target groups are the following: pregnant and parturient women, their families, medical and administrative staff of the hospitals, officers from the Ministry of Health.
Results of the Project: more pregnant and parturient women and their families will be informed about patients’ rights and their importance; hospitals and Ministry of Health staff will be acquainted with the current situation from perspective of the patients and will be able to make changes in the field of maternity care, with greater regard for maternal rights. The aim is to create a bigger and smoother dialogue between all relevant target groups, and to reduce the tensions that arise periodically.