Royal college aims to tackle racism in obstetrics and gynaecology with new taskforce

A race equality taskforce has been launched by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists to explore racial disparities in women’s healthcare and racism within the obstetric and gynaecology workforce.

Statistics show that black women are five times more likely to die in pregnancy, childbirth, or in the six month postpartum period compared with white women and the risk for Asian women is twice as …