As social workers in the healthcare field, addressing obstetric violence requires a multi-faceted approach that includes prevention, intervention, advocacy, and legal support. To defend and react to cases, social workers must first ensure that affected women have a safe space to report abuse, validate their experiences, and provide psychosocial support to mitigate trauma. Implementing awareness programs for healthcare professionals on patients’ rights, informed consent, and respectful maternity care is essential to prevent such abuses. Additionally, social workers can advocate for clear hospital protocols, patient feedback mechanisms, and mandatory training on gender-sensitive care to foster accountability. Supporting women involves connecting them with legal aid, counseling services, and community support groups while empowering them with knowledge of their rights. Strengthening protection against obstetric violence requires institutional and legal reforms, such as strict enforcement of patients' rights laws, inclusion of obstetric violence in medical ethics codes, disciplinary actions against offenders, and national policies ensuring humanized childbirth practices. By combining education, policy change, legal action, and advocacy, social workers play a critical role in eradicating obstetric violence and promoting dignified, respectful maternal healthcare.

social workers in healthcare, we defend women against obstetric violence by advocating for informed consent, respectful maternity care, and legal accountability. We support victims through counseling, legal aid, and awareness campaigns, ensuring their rights are upheld while working with medical professionals to promote ethical practices.

By standing up for their rights, obtaining informed permission, offering emotional support, disclosing abuses, and encouraging patient-centered, respectful treatment, social workers in the medical field protect women who are victims of obstetric violence. In order to stop further harm, we also seek to increase awareness and advocate for legislative changes.

As social workers in healthcare, responding to obstetric violence means providing immediate, trauma-informed support while also advocating for women’s rights within the system. First, we must listen and validate women’s experiences, ensure their safety, and empower them to make choices about care, documentation, or complaints. At the institutional level, social workers act as advocates by raising concerns, supporting informed consent, and guiding women through hospital or legal complaint mechanisms when desired. Psychosocial care is essential, addressing trauma, stigma, and connecting women to counseling or peer support groups. At the broader level, social workers play a preventive and systemic role by promoting respectful maternity care, engaging in staff sensitization, policy development, and awareness campaigns. The central principle is to be nonjudgmental, woman-centered, and committed to upholding dignity, safety, and autonomy while pushing for accountability in healthcare practices.