| Perception of Parents’ Care-Seeking Behavior |
“To the clinic because that is where medicines are available. We do so because traditional medicines are not recommended to babies” (FGD, Siavonga District) |
“I can assure you before they come to the hospital they would have exhausted all these others places, they trust their traditional people, they trust more their TBAs, they trust their “ng’angas”, (witch doctor), to say they will do a better job, first of all they will go, they exhaust, when they see that nothing is happening, they will say “let’s go to the hospital” (Registered Midwife, Choma District) |
