Senator tables motion on creation of mental health facilities for mothers

10 per cent of pregnant women and 13 per cent of women who have just given birth experience perinatal depression. [iStockphoto]

Nominated Senator Hamida Kibwana has tabled a motion in the Senate seeking the establishment of mental health facilities for mothers.

Ms Kibwana said that women who experience stillbirths and those that lose their children during delivery are taken to the general maternity ward where other mothers with healthy babies are recovering, causing them mental anguish.