Maternity closes – shortage of midwives

The maternity hospital in Lycksele opened in February after being closed for over a year. But now it is being forced to close again. The reason: a shortage of midwives.

Labor and delivery closures drive South Dakota to a maternal care ‘precipice’

Emma Bye, pictured here on May 9, 2025, is an obstetrician-gynecologist at Yankton Medical Clinic in southeastern South Dakota. (Kelly Hertz, Yankton Press & Dakotan)Shelsey Klein was 33 weeks pregnant and crying when she stormed into the Winner Regional Health CEO’s office. She found out through social media in December that the hospital planned to close its labor and delivery unit in February, a week before she was due to deliver her baby. She…

In June 2024 the new birth station of the Darmstadt-Dieburger Kreiskliniken in Groß-Umstadt was put into operation. A look into the delivery room.

Landkreis Roth - Surprising news from the Rother Kreisklinik: Obstetrics must close already in a few months, if not new doctors find themselves for it. The round-the-clock readiness has already been sewn on edge for weeks.