Maternal Mortality and Its Challenge

Abstract

Indirect causes of death are due to conditions that in association with pregnancy hastens the fatal outcome. Every minute women die needlessly of pregnancy-related causes this adds up to more than half a million women lost each year. Another eight million or more suffer lifelong health consequences from the complications of pregnancy. Each woman rich or poor faces a 15% of complication of pregnancy around the time of delivery but maternal death is practically nonexistent in developed regions. The lives of many women in developing countries could be saved with reproductive health interventions that people in rich countries take for granted.