Month: September 2026

“Hospitals can’t improve maternal health unless they know what is happening”: Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran on preventing maternal deaths

As global health leaders across Africa renewed commitments in July to prevent deaths from postpartum haemorrhage, the UK was also confronting its own failings in maternity care. Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, known to many as Arul, has spent decades working to improve maternal health, from practising obstetrics in large maternity units to advising the UK government