Nurses are the main health care providers on postpartum wards in hospitals. Women’s postpartum
hospital stay averages to 24 h for vaginal births and 48 h for caesarean sections. There are no organized systems of delivering postpartum services after discharge from hospitals, such as home
visits, and postpartum care is confined to the six weeks check-up after delivery, something used by only half of postpartum women in the country.