Last month, Polish citizens re-elected the prime minister and voted in some historic candidates. While the prime minister is liberal when it comes to the economy, his government is conservative about social issues and did nothing in its first term to improve the appallingly bad reproductive health situation.
The need to increase the number of trained workers to reduce maternal mortality can not be overestimated. But there are also other very cheap and highly effective methods of combating maternal mortality in the short run.