Rural America Sees Rise In Infant Mortality
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Nationwide, there is an OBGYN shortage, and living the rural life isn't an easy selling point for recruiters.
The Mississippi Delta — king of catfish and cotton and the Delta blues — a place that sometimes seems frozen in time.
Many gravitate to the old ways of doing things. Change is hard, but Mississippi Delta native Dr. Lakeisha Richardson, an OBGYN at Delta Health-Medical Group Women's Healthcare Clinic, says it's necessary to change the trend of babies dying.
"Unfortunately, there are a lot of traditions or cycles that really need to be broken that older women pass down to our younger moms that have worked or for babies that have survived," Richardson said. "But then when you have that one baby that doesn't, then it's like, 'Oh, where did we go wrong?'"
