This article focuses on maternal death rate in Tibet. Two American reporters, Sera Bonds and Adam Rosenbloom, who visited Tibet exposed the deplorable conditions of clinics meant for child-births. There is no midwife and unhygienic conditions prevail in several clinics in the Nagchu prefecture, which encompasses 11 counties of the Tibet Autonomous Region. A Tibetan medicine doctor provides patients with remedies such as herbs, diet changes and prayers. The study by Bonds and Rosenbloom highlights the need for health care on an urgent basis for Tibetan women. Arlene Samen, an obstetric nurse at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, founded One H.E.A.R.T., a group that conducts midwifery training in Tibet since 1998. The group focuses on the cultural beliefs that surround child birth. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)