Brooklyn Borough President (BP) Antonio Reynoso launched a $250,000 multilingual maternal health campaign on Nov. 16 to raise awareness in Black and brown communities facing high maternal mortality rates.
on Nov. 16 to raise awareness in Black and brown communities facing high maternal mortality rates.
Reynoso started a Maternal Health Task Force in April 2022 and then allocated his entire $45 million for next year’s fiscal capital budget toward state-of-the-art birthing centers in Brooklyn’s safety net hospitals in July. Kings County Hospital received about $15 million to renovate their newborn intensive care unit, Coney Island Hospital received $18.5M to renovate their labor and delivery rooms, and Woodhull Hospital got $11 million to build a birthing center.
Black pregnant people in Brooklyn are 9.4 times more likely to die of pregnancy-related complications than their white counterparts, with Haitian women facing the highest risks, said the BP’s office. A third of pregnancy-related deaths in New York City are among residents of Brooklyn, with the highest rates reported in neighborhoods such as Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Bushwick, Canarsie, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatbush and Williamsburg, said the BP’s office.
Helena Grant, co-chair of the BP’s Maternal Health Taskforce and Director of Midwifery Services at Woodhull Hospital, said that the maternal task force has been diligently unpacking the problem and working together to fortify the citizens of Brooklyn. She considers Black and brown maternal mortality a symptom of the “patriarchal model of medicine” and the structured racism that exists.
Present to lend their political support for the BP’s maternal health campaign and taskforce was Senator Jabari Brisport and Assemblymembers Monique Chandler Waterman and Brian Cunnigham.
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