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The Mountain Midwives of Vietnam
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The Mountain Midwives of Vietnam

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In the mountains of northern Vietnam, infant and maternal mortality rates run ten times higher than the national average, and the nearest hospital can be hours away over rough terrain. This Al Jazeera film follows a Hmong midwife trained to deliver that missing care in Chi Ca commune, an isolated community where pregnancy and childbirth have long been handled without medical support. The camera goes with her on home visits and through the physical work of reaching patients scattered across steep, roadless terrain, showing the routine of checkups, birth, and follow-up care rather than staging it as crisis. Cultural resistance is part of the picture too: convincing families to trust outside training over inherited practice takes as much of her time as the medicine does. Filmmakers Nick Ahlmark and Nicole Precel, working for Storytime Films, keep the focus narrow and local, letting one midwife's daily rounds carry the larger point about healthcare access in Vietnam's remote highlands. The film ends without resolution, because the gap she is filling is still there.